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Phenomena traditionally thought of as morphological can be accounted for in terms of syntactic operations and principles, hence bringing forth questions that traditional morphology fails to ask (for instance, concerning the licensing of empty morphemes). The language faculty contains no specific morphological component, nor any post-syntactic morphological operations.
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Towards a Theory of Morphology as Syntax

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Kayne (2022) has proposed that the asymmetry of syntax be built into the fundamental operation of Merge itself. This squib reviews some of his proposals and supporting evidence. Departing from Kayne, this squib hypothesized that the asymmetric patterns mainly lie in the functional domain of syntax, and the lexical domain may remain symmetric either within a language or cross-linguistically. The Functional Asymmetry Hypothesis (FAH) is supported by the global symmetry of the VO/OV word order, the commutative conjunction structures in the lexical domain, and the free ordering of event-internal adverbs. If the observation is on the right track, it suggests that the asymmetry of syntax, while empirically robust, cannot be entirely reduced to the operation Merge.
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Symmetry in the Asymmetric Universe: Remarks on Kayne (2022)

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This article examines the syntactic structure of long <italic>gei</italic> passives in Mandarin Chinese and argues against the prepositional analysis of <italic>gei</italic> in long passives. Refining the ditransitive verb analysis of Lin and Huang (2015), we propose that <italic>gei</italic> is an object-control verb which selects a vP complement rather than a CP or IP complement. By providing supporting evidence for the vP analysis through drawing a parallel from object preposing, we show that long <italic>gei</italic> passives behave on a par with sentences with verbs involving vP complementation like <italic>changshi</italic> ‘try’, not with those involving IP complementation like <italic>jihua</italic> ‘plan’. We also show that the ditransitive analysis is supported by syntactic parallels between long <italic>gei</italic> passives and typical ditransitive sentences in terms of transformation into pseudo-clefts and topicalization of the outer object. The result of this research suggests that two types of object-control structures should be distinguished. One of them involves an IP complement taken by verbs like <italic>qiangpo</italic> ‘force’, while the other involves a vP complement taken by <italic>gei</italic>/<italic>bei</italic> in long passives.
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The Syntax of Mandarin Long <italic>Gei</italic> Passives Revisited

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