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This final chapter reviews the ways in which the various empirical investigations have addressed the research questions posed in Chap. 1 concerning the formal status of words and predicates in Palauan and in linguistic theory, the distribution of features across different elements in a phrase marker, and how these features are realized as words. The aim is to integrate the results of the various chapters into a cohesive picture of the how the individual investigations fit together to argue for a particular theory of word formation. The result is a step forward in our understanding of various empirical phenomena that not only augment our knowledge of the internal structure of the language, but also how it relates typologically to other languages in the Austronesian family and beyond. The data presented in this book serves as strong evidence that words in Palauan do not enter the syntax fully formed and inflected. The numeration in Chomsky’s Minimalism may instead contain bundles of abstract morphosyntactic features drawn from something like a pre-syntactic lexicon, and morphophonological material is inserted post-syntactically, as in theories like A-Morphous Morphology and Distributed Morphology.
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Though see recent theories of syntax that eliminate Move as an operation distinct from Merge by relying on a relevant linearization algorithm to pronounce only particular copies of elements that Merge in more than one place. One such theory is that in Ramchand (2008 ) .
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Nuger, J. (2016). Overall Conclusions. In: Building Predicates. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 92. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28682-2_7
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