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Successive cyclicity at the syntax‐morphology interface: evidence from standard Indonesian and Kendal Javanese *
Author(s) -
Sato Yosuke
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.2011.01185.x
Subject(s) - indonesian , prefix , syntax , morphology (biology) , linguistics , vocabulary , interface (matter) , computer science , feature (linguistics) , head (geology) , component (thermodynamics) , natural language processing , speech recognition , philosophy , physics , biology , parallel computing , paleontology , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , genetics , thermodynamics
. This paper proposes a new analysis of the distribution of the active voice morphology in Standard Indonesian and Kendal Javanese. Specifically, I argue that an NP undergoes movement into the edge of v *P to delete the uninterpretable D‐feature of the phase head (Chomsky 2000, 2001, 2004). This deletion, in turn, blocks the active voice prefix from being inserted under v* in the post‐syntactic morphological component; its null counterpart is inserted as the elsewhere vocabulary item. To the extent that the proposed analysis holds, the data discussed here provides crucial empirical support for the role of v P phases at the syntax‐morphology interface and yields a new understanding of “deletion” as the failure of vocabulary insertion (Harley 2005) in the sense of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993).