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Constraints All the Way Down: DM in a Representational Model of Grammar
Ash Asudeh, Paul B. Melchin, and Daniel Siddiqi
468-476 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

Distributed Morphology (DM; Halle & Marantz 1993) is a realizational framework for morphological theory and, like any such framework, assumes an interface with a syntactic module that provides the structures to be realized. However, unlike other realizational models (e.g., Paradigm Function Morphology; Stump 2001), DM has assumed a particular syntactic framework for providing those structures: Minimalism. Given this consistent co-occurrence, it can be hard to easily identify where Minimalism ends and where DM begins. This paper identifies the key features of DM that are independent of its interface with Minimalism. Those features effectively comprise DM in isolation. This paper then offers a new framework called Lexical-Realizational Functional Grammar (LRFG), which marries this conception of DM as a theory of morphological realization to Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG; Kaplan & Bresnan 1982) as a theory of syntax and grammatical architecture. This paper then argues for reasons a representational, constraint-based model of DM might be preferable and demonstrates it by analyzing Ojibwe agreement morphology as a case study.

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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
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