Abstract Rolle (2020) identifies an apparent morphophonological conspiracy in serial verb constructions (SVCs) Degema. He argues that it constitutes evidence for a partly-unified postsyntactic module, which morphology and prosody are built parallel (by ‘Optimality-Theoretic Distributed Morphology’). We argue the pattern Degema SVCs instead results from simultaneous interaction of two independen...

This paper presents a restrictive theory of the interface between the lexicon and the syntax. I assume that only a limited amount of lexical information is available at the interface, and, following Borer (1994), that semantic (aspectual) interpretation is assigned at specifiers of aspectual projections, rather than within the VP. Thus, the concept of "Mapping" from lexicon to syntax or the "Li...