F-structural Spellout in LFG Morphology

Although its architecture ascribes a central role to the lexicon and morphology, most work in LFG has proceeded without reference to any particular theory of morphology. Sadler and Nordlinger (2004, to appear) begin to amend this deficiency by applying Stump’s (2001) theory of Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM) to an LFG analysis of some particularly challenging data, the phenomenon of ‘case stacking’ (Dench and Evans 1988) in Australian languages, especially Martuthunira (Dench 1995) and Kayardild (Evans 1995). In this note I will point out a rather implausible feature of Sadler and Nordlinger’s (2004) proposal for connecting the morphological descriptions of PFM to the functional descriptions of LFG, and propose an alternative which I think is simpler and more consistent with what I take to be the basic ideas of PFM.