Open AccessThe union spell-out principle
Author(s) -
Peter Kinyua Muriungi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nordlyd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1503-8599
pISSN - 0332-7531
DOI - 10.7557/12.222
Subject(s) - spell , morpheme , phrase , grammar , linguistics , lexicon , font , natural language processing , character (mathematics) , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , theology
This paper argues that grammar has a union spell-out principle that dictates that contiguous heads be spelled out by a single morpheme or phrase if there exists a morpheme or phrase in the lexicon with a collection of the features of the contiguous head
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