TY  - INPR
A1  - Alexiadou, Artemis
A1  - Müller, Gereon
T1  - Class features as probes
N2  - In this article, we adress (i) the form and (ii) the function on inflection class features in minimalist grammar. The empirical evidence comes from noun inflection systems involving fusional markers in German, Greek, and Russian. As for (i), we argue (based on instances of transparadigmatic syncretism) that class features are not privative; rather, class information must be decomposed into more abstract, binary features. Concerning (ii), we propose that class features qualify as the very device that brings about fusional infection: They are uninterpretable in syntax and actas probes on stems, with matching inflection markers as goels, and thus trigger morphological Agree operations that merge stem and inflection marker before syntax is reached.
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Französisch
KW  - Russisch
KW  - Flexion
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9617
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1108458
UR  - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/%7Emuellerg/mu55.pdf
N1  - auch in: Inflectional identity, hrsg. v. Bachrach, Asaf, Nevins, Andrew (2008), S. 101-155
SP  - 101
EP  - 155
ER  -