535 Assignment 1

Paper: Harley & Noyer, “Distributed Morphology”

Due: Tuesday, Jan 20th

Describe how the Subset Principle operates to determine the winning candidate in vocabulary insertion (3-4 sentences).

What does the operation of “Merger” do? At what level of application can an instance of ‘Merger’ also be called “Local Dislocation”? (2-3 sentences).