Phrasal Spellout and Partial Overwrite: On an alternative to backtracking

This paper explores branching vocabulary items as a possible alternative to backtracking in Nanosyntax. Such vocabulary items give rise to the possibility of partial overwrite. Initially, they spell out a node with two phrasal daughters. At a subsequent stage, the right branch is interpreted by a ne...

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Main Author: Hagen Blix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-05-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5442/