Nanodays 01

The day morphology ate syntax

Michal Starke

Nanodays 01

nanosyntax

syntax ?

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

merge-next-f-in-fseq

> lexicalise

> evac cyclic/rollup

> backtrack

2 morphemes! (3, 4, 5, ...)

▸ allomorphy/suppletion

▸ portemanteau

▸ Taraldian root-size as selection

▸ paradigms, etc

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling	X'
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

evac	roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

Provide next f of fseq, via:

• merge-f + lexicalise

• merge XP-containing-f

▸ prepositions (vs case)

▸ wh particles

▸ determiners

▸ Vietnamese tense, neg

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

Provide next f of fseq, via:

• merge-f + lexicalise

• merge XP-containing-f

• move-f from prior merge

merge-f

lexicalise

evac/subextract

lexicalise

evac/spec-to-spec

lexicalise

evac/rollup

lexicalise

backtrack

(lexicalise)

complex left branch

lexicalise

Lexicalise after every syntactic operation

merge-f

evac/subextract

evac/spec-to-spec

evac/rollup

backtrack

complex left branch

merge-f

evac*

backtrack

complex left branch

merge-f	> evac*	}	backtrack
merge-XP_f	> evac*

move-f	> evac*	}
merge-f	> evac*		backtrack
merge-XP_f	> evac*

merge-f	> evac*	}
move-f	> evac*		backtrack
merge-XP_f	> evac*

merge-f	> evac*	}
merge-XP_f	> evac*		backtrack
move-f	> evac*

1. empirical argument?

2. ±trace?

merge-f	>	move-f
move-f	>	merge-f

merge-XP_f	>	move-f
move-f	>	merge-XP_f

[_AspP Erwin worry Edith]

[f_neg [Erwin worry Edith]]

[f_neg [Erwin worry nobody]]

[f_neg [Erwin worry Edith]] ⇒ neg-word

[f_neg [Erwin worry nobody]] ⇒ ∅

[f_neg [Erwin worry Edith]] ⇒ neg-word

[f_neg [Erwin worry nobody]] ⇒ neg-word

✓ [Erwin a pas inquieté Edith]

✕ [Erwin a pas inquieté personne]

✓ [Erwin a pas inquieté Edith]

✓ [Erwin a pas inquieté personne]

move-f

>

merge-XP_f

Taroo	wa	gakusee	zen’in	o	sikar	anakat	ta
Taro	top	student	all	ACC	scold	not	past
"Taro didn’t scold every student"

Daremo	ko	nakat	ta
Nobody	come	not	past
"Nobody came"

Taro	wa	nanimo	tabe	nakat	ta.
Taro	Top	nothing	eat	not	past
"Taro ate nothing"

merge-f

>

move-f

merge-f

>

move-f

>

merge-XP_f

merge-f	> evac*	}
borrow-f	> evac*		backtrack
merge-XP_f	> evac*

.

Traces?

Which picture of himself did Trump fawn over t?

Every one of them!

[which picture ...] did Trump fawn over [... himself]?

borrow-f	projects label	label intervention
merge-f	projects label
evac*	✕	✕

mv = copy + merge (higher)

mv = ~~copy~~ + merge (higher)

mv = re-merge (higher)

"trace" = lower merge position

evac*	= move
	= un-merge (low) + merge (high)
	= the only "real" move

merge-f	> evac*	}
re-merge-f	> evac*		backtrack
merge-XP_f	> evac*

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	X'	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq	bundles

nano-syntax?

nano-is-syntax

merge-f	> evac*	}
re-merge-f	> evac*		backtrack
merge-XP_f	> evac*

merge-f	}		}
re-merge-f		evac*		backtrack
merge-XP_f

roll-up	N/V	A	A'
merge	labelling
lexicalisation	fseq

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq

evac	roll	-up	N/V	A	A'
merge-f	labelling	mergeXP
lexicalisation	fseq