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Irish / 2

base	past	C.cond past	C.neg past
glan	H glan	má H glan	nar	H glan	(to clean)
clois	chuala	má chuala	nar	chuala	(to hear)
feic	chonaic	má chonaic	nach	faca	(to see)

merge-f

last-resort movements

backtrack

merge-xp

H glan (past CLEAN)

"Spawning a separate subderivation is so costly that it is kept around as long as possible rather than immediately closed and its result merged in the mainline. On the next derivational step, that same subderivation is asked to provide the subsequent feature." Starke (2018:248)

H glan (past CLEAN)

f↑	xp↑	f↓	xp↓	(1)
f↑	f↓	xp↑	xp↓	(2)
f↑	f↓	xp↓	xp↑	(2b)
f↓	xp↓	f↑	xp↑	(3)
f↓	f↑	xp↓	xp↑	(4)
f↓	f↑	xp↑	xp↓	(4b)

nar H glan (C.neg past CLEAN)

base	past	C.cond past	C.neg past
glan	H glan	má H glan	nar	H glan	(to clean)
clois	chuala	má chuala	nar	chuala	(to hear)

nar chuala (C.neg past HEAR)

base	past	C.cond past	C.neg past
glan	H glan	má H glan	nar	H glan	(to clean)
clois	chuala	má chuala	nar	chuala	(to hear)
feic	chonaic	má chonaic	nach	faca	(to see)

nach faca (C.neg past SEE)

base	past	C.cond past	C.neg past
glan	H glan	má H glan	nar	H glan	(to clean)
clois	chuala	má chuala	nar	chuala	(to hear)
feic	chonaic	má chonaic	nach	faca	(to see)

*nar faca (C.neg past SEE)

*faca-nach (C.neg past SEE)

∀f in CLB projects to the main spine

*nar faca (C.neg past SEE)

Je	mi	jedno,	proti	komu	hraju
is	me.dat	one,	against	who.dat	play.1sg
"I don't care against whom I play"

pro	koho	hlasujete?
for	who.acc	vote.2pl
"who are you voting for?"

*	Il	m'est	égal,	contre	à	qui	je	joue
	it	me'is	equal,	against	to	who	I	play
"I don't care against whom I play"

✓	Il	m'est	égal,	contre	qui	je	joue
	it	me'is	equal,	against	to	who	I	play
"I don't care against whom I play"

✓	pour	qui	tu	votes?
	for	who.acc	vote.2sg
"who are you voting for?"

	Cz	Fr	En
against	Dat	Acc	Acc
for	Acc	Acc	Acc
around	Gen	Gen	Acc

(the syllable za in "the syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language ... in what is now Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia.")

∀f in CLB projects to the main spine

[the orange clown] will lose supporters

[to post as a happy cat lady] enrages the orange clown

Types of CLB (specifiers)

Partial versus Full

independently started vs "helper"