Lexical Sharing and Non-projecting Words: The Case of Zapotec Adjectives

George Aaron Broadwell

Abstract

A Zapotec attributive adjective forms a single phonological word with the noun that it modifies. This N+Adjective combination is an instance of an element that corresponds to one word in phonology, but two words in syntax. These mismatches can be successfully captured in the lexical sharing approach of Wescoat (2002).

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