Spell-out

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In minimalist theory spell-out is an instruction to switch to PF. What happens at PF is a point of debate; if one assumes that lexical items come from the lexicon fully inflected, phonological features are 'stripped away' at PF. Another possibility is that Spell-Out accesses the lexicon to associate the syntactic structure with phonological features.

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

• Chomsky, N. 1998. Minimalist inquiries: the framework, MIT working papers in linguistics.
• Chomsky, N. 1995. The minimalist program, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London.
• Chomsky, N. 1993. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory, MIT occasional papers in linguistics, 1-67. Reprinted in: Chomsky (1995).