Default case and the status of compound categories in Distributed Morphology

Abstract

This paper is concerned with theoretical and empirical issues in the definition and treatment of morphological categories. Considering the decomposition of privative categories into bundles of binary features, I will discuss what work the latter should be expected to do. I will propose a fairly literal interpretation of these component binary features and argue that we should take their independence from one another more seriously. I will then show that this provides us with the means to deal nicely with default categories, in particular the phenomenon known as default case.

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