Asymmetry in Morphology

Series Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Asymmetric Relations 1(20) The Asymmetry Hypothesis 2(1) Morphological Relations 2(6) Asymmetry and Linearization 8(3) Movement as Asymmetry Breaking 11(2) The Strict Asymmetry of Morphology 13(8) Appendix: Sets, Pairs, and Relations 16(5) Asymmetry Theory 21(14) Asymmetry Theory and the Architecture of the Grammar 21(2) Minimal Trees and Homogeneous Projections 23(4) Features, Interpretable and Uninterpretable 27(2) Operations, Generic and Component-Specific 29(4) Conditions, Strict Asymmetry, and Legibility 33(1) Summary 34(1) Layers and Shells 35(20) The M-Shell Hypothesis 35(3) On the Specificity of the M-Shell 38(2) The Morphological Domain 40(1) The Diagnostic for the Phase 40(13) Summary 53(2) Argument-Feature Asymmetry 55(20) The A-Shell Hypothesis 60(2) A-Feature Distinctiveness 62(1) Predictions 63(2) Flexibility 65(4) Extensions 69(3) Crosslinguistic Evidence 72(2) Summary 74(1) Aspect-Feature Asymmetry 75(24) The Asp-Shell Hypothesis 79(4) On the Specificity of the Asp-Shell 83(1) Predictions 84(10) Some Differences between Aspectual Relations in M and S 94(2) Summary 96(3) Operator-Variable Feature Asymmetry 99(24) On wh-and th-Words 100(3) The Op-Shell Hypothesis 103(4) On the Specificity of the Op-Shell 107(1) Linear Order, Agreement, and Interpretability 108(13) Derived Op-Shells for wh- and th-Words 121(1) Summary 122(1) Asymmetry at the Interfaces 123(26) Strict Scope 124(5) Linear Order 129(6) Mirror Structures 135(3) Apparent Counterevidence 138(2) Extensions 140(4) Tractability 144(2) Summary 146(3) The Persistence of Asymmetry in Variation 149(20) The Preservation Hypothesis 150(1) PF Orderings 151(7) PF Legibility 158(7) Variation in M and S 165(1) Summary 166(3) Concluding Remarks 169(8) The Arguments in a Nutshell 169(4) Asymmetry in a Broader Perspective 173(4) Notes 177(32) References 209(20) Index 229