Syntax and Morphology are Different: Commentary on Jonas
2002pp. 271–275
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter presents a commentary on Chapter 14. It comments on the implausibly ‘legalistic’ correlations in the literature, whereby grammars are said to have V-to-I raising if verbal paradigms distinguish first from second person in at least one tense, or if person morphology is found in all tenses. Under this view, morphology drives syntax, but the driving force is not the morphology of individual verbs but a property of the whole paradigm. The chapter accepts conclusions that the presence of the V-to-I operation does not correlate with morphological distinctions, and emphasizes that syntacticians cannot expect morphology to indicate syntactic structure in some isomorphic fashion.
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