This paper shows that you can do variation without inventing any dedicated marker such as "EPP features" or "strength of features". The solution is simple: if you allow lexical items to spell out entire syntactic phrases, some lexemes will be bigger phrases, some will be smaller phrases and I explore the conjecture that this is all we need for cross-linguistic variation.
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Reference: | lingbuzz/001183 (please use that when you cite this article) |
keywords: | parameters, language variation, phrasal spellout, syntax, nanosyntax |
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