Fusion and PF architecture

Distributed Morphology (DM-Halle and Marantz 1993, 1994) postulates a number of post-syntactic structure-altering operations that characterize the Morphological component of grammar. Since the inception of DM, this avenue of the theory has been well explored. However, most of this work has focused on the mechanics or effects of these operations rather than on their causes or global properties. This paper explores one such operation, namely Fusion, from the latter perspective. To this end, our research is guided by the following questions:

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