Lardil “Case Stacking” and the Timing of Case Assignment
Lardil “Case Stacking” and the Timing of Case Assignment
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Lardil“案例堆叠”和案例分配的时机
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2013
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N. Richards
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N. Richards
Abstract. Lardil (Tangkic, Australia) allows nominals to surface with multiple case affixes. One condition on this so-called case stacking is that when new morphology is added to a nominal with a semantically uninterpretable Case (such as accusative), the Case is dropped; a nominal with a semantically interpretable Case (such as instrumental), by contrast, can stack more morphology outside the Case morpheme. I argue that uninterpretable Cases in these examples are in fact assigned and later eliminated, and develop an approach to Spell-out that allows such derivations to take place, in which PF Spell-out and LF Spell-out are dissociated. I offer two arguments that processes like Case assignment and concord take place in the narrow syntax: one has to do with the distinction drawn between meaningful and meaningless Cases, and the other with the interaction between Lardil Tense concord and various types of movement operations.