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discuss empty elements in nanosyntax and roll up #84

Open stefan11 opened 5 years ago

stefan11 commented 5 years ago

Reviewer on DG paper: The comment regarding “empty elements” is an interesting one, but one perspective that is not mentioned here is the fact that the empty elements in a version of Minimalism such as Nanosyntax contains potentially relevant phonological and/or semantic information. Under such an approach, there are no “empty elements”, those that do not have a phonological reflex are “rolled up” or “bundled together.” Perhaps this is a point that need not be directly addressed in this piece, but it is worth considering.

stefan11 commented 5 years ago

Had a look at The Nanosyntax of case. The following may also be relevant.

Muriungi, Peter. 2008. Phrasal movement inside Bantu verbs: Deriving affix scope and order in Kiitharaka. Ph.D. thesis, CASTL, Tromsø.