Syn&Sin Meeting

When: Friday, 3 December 2010, 13:30
Where: 604A

Bartosz Wiland "Prefix stacking, syncretism, and the syntactic hierarchy"

Abstract:
Two observations can be made in the domain of Polish super-lexical prefixes:
   (i) despite the many stacking possibilities, some patterns are unattested (e.g. po-na-stawiać, na-prze-stawiać, but *na-po-stawiać, etc.)
   (ii) syncretic prefixes do not stack, except the syncretic distributive and deliminative po- (as in po-po-wstawiać, etc.). 
In this talk, I will argue that these two superficially different facts are closely related. In particular, both follow from the theory in which Spell out may target non-terminal nodes and the lexicalization of syntactic representations is regulated by the subset-superset relation, as in recent work on nanosyntax.

added by B. Wiland