The union spell-out principle

• Published in: Nordlyd (Tromsø, Norway) Vol. 36; no. 1
• Main Author: Peter Kinyua Muriungi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 01.01.2009
• Subjects: blocking; phrasal spell-out; spell-out; union

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 heads