Delimiting the syntactic word
Peter Svenonius
March 2018 

The mapping of syntactic structure onto PF at spell-out is affected by two features, w and @. W partitions a span (a head-complement sequence) into insertion spans, which are relevant for cyclic lexical insertion and the creation of prosodic words. @ determines the linearization of words in the span, with respect to phrasal adjuncts and specifiers. Clitics and incorporated elements are defective specifiers, lacking @ and hence incapable of linearizing independently. This theory replaces the X^0 theory of word formation and linearization. X^0 theory is crucially reliant on head movement, which this proposal attempts to eliminate.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/003934 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	ms. University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway
keywords:	word, spans, spanning, morphology, dm, x0, heads, spell-out, cyclic spell-out, head movement, prosodic word, morphology, syntax
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