syncretism w/o paradigms

[John Frampton]

Thanks Martha,

> >It has also seemed to me that impoverishment is naturally viewed as an
> >aspect of the syntactic structure -> morpheme structure mapping.
> >Under this view, impoverishment happens before the lexicon comes
> >into play in filling in the nodes of the morpheme structure.
> >
> >Are there any knock-down arguments against this view?
>
> I don't think so, but there are arguments that things are a bit more
> complicated. Jonathan Bobaljik and Andrew Nevins have both argued in
> recent work that impoverishment can be 'interleaved' with vocabulary
> insertion into syntactic nodes.  That is, a syntactic feature can
> condition the insertion of one vocabulary item, then be deleted
> before another vocabulary item is inserted.

This seems to me to be a strong counterargument, not just a
complication.  I'll look at the papers you mentioned.

- John