By Eric Fuß
This e-book investigates the old paths top from pronouns to markers of verbal contract and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization technique. against ideals greatly held within the literature, it truly is argued that new contract formatives might be coined in a mess of syntactic environments. nonetheless, the person paths towards contract are proven to show a suite of underlying similarities that are attributed to common rules that govern the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as exponents of verbal contract throughout languages. it's claimed that syntactic ideas impose just a set of useful stipulations at the reanalysis in query, whereas its final set off is morphological in nature. extra particularly, it's argued that the purchase of inflectional morphology is ruled through blocking off results which function in the course of language acquisition and advertise the grammaticalization of latest markers if this transformation serves to switch ‘worn-out’, underspecified types with new, extra certain applicants.
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Elsewhere ↔ -Ø This approach implies that Vocabulary items may be underspecified for the feature complexes they realize. In (12), the exponent -Ø is maximally underspecified since it is not linked to any feature specification at all (the ‘elsewhere’ case). The basic properties of the insertion procedure are captured by Halle’s (1997: 428) Subset Principle (not to be confused with the Subset Principle of Wexler & Manzini 1987):9 (13) The Subset Principle The phonological exponent of a Vocabulary item is inserted into a morpheme in the terminal string if the item matches all of a subset of the grammatical features specified in the terminal morpheme.
Fem] ↔ /-t/ Due to the fact that morphemes created by Fission contain only a subset of the features contained in the original morpheme, Fission often results in the insertion of less marked or ‘elsewhere’ Vocabulary items, that is, “Fission extends the domain of less marked exponents” (Halle 1997: 432). 10 (582-642) The Rise of Agreement Vocabulary Insertion (cf. Bonet 1991 for the original proposal). As a result, Vocabulary items that require the presence of those features cannot be inserted and a less specified exponent must be used to realize the morpheme affected by Impoverishment (which Halle & Marantz 1994 call the “Retreat to the General Case”).
In Chapter 6, I discuss a set of morphological factors that shape the grammaticalization of agreement markers, focusing on the observation that across languages, the development of new agreement formatives is triggered only in contexts where the existing verbal agreement morphology is non-distinctive. This observation is accounted for by the assumption that the learner scans the input for the most specific exponent of a given inflectional morpheme. , realize a greater subset of the φ-features contained in the relevant Agr-head) than existing morphology.