Strictly Local Impoverishment: An Intervention Effect
Jurij Bozic
January 2018 

Nevins (2011) proposes that dual-plural number contrasts are Impoverished in the context of feminine gender in Ljubljana Slovenian. However, in some Case-forms of nominal paradigms, Impoverishment is blocked. This pattern can be given a principled account if Impoverishment is strictly local, implying it may only search for its triggering context in the closest head in the c-command domain. The absence of a local trigger gives rise to Intervention.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/003825 (please use that when you cite this article)
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keywords:	syncretism, impoverishment, blocking, intervention, distributed morphology, slovenian, dual, morphology, syntax
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