Categorial Features ↔ Category-Changing Morphology #
@cite{panagiotidis-2015} @cite{marantz-1997}Connects the theory-side predictions of @cite{panagiotidis-2015} — substantive categorial features [N] and [V] hosted on categorizer heads — to the empirical data on category-changing morphology in English.
What this bridge proves #
Categorizer–LexCat correspondence: Each theory-side categorizer (v, n, a) maps to exactly one empirical lexical category (verb, noun, adjective).
Feature predictions: The categorial features [N]/[V] on each categorizer correctly predict the interpretive perspective of the resulting category — nouns have sortal perspective ([N]), verbs have temporal perspective ([V]), adjectives have both ([N, V]).
EP well-formedness: Each categorizer extends its lexical anchor into a well-formed EP (A→a, N→n, V→v).
Categorizer parallelism: All three categorizers sit at the same F-level (F1 in Grimshaw's system), formalizing Panagiotidis's claim that categorization is a uniform operation across category families.
Derivational chain #
ExtendedProjection/Basic.lean (CategorialFeatures, isCategorizer, categorialFeatures)
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THIS BRIDGE FILE
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Phenomena/Morphology/CategoryChanging.lean (RootFamily, LexCat)
Map a Minimalist categorizer to the empirical lexical category of the word it produces. This is the core link between the theory (Cat.v, Cat.n, Cat.a) and the data (LexCat).
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- Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015.categorizerToLexCat Minimalism.Cat.v = some Phenomena.Morphology.CategoryChanging.LexCat.verb
- Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015.categorizerToLexCat Minimalism.Cat.n = some Phenomena.Morphology.CategoryChanging.LexCat.noun
- Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015.categorizerToLexCat Minimalism.Cat.a = some Phenomena.Morphology.CategoryChanging.LexCat.adjective
- Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015.categorizerToLexCat x✝ = none
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Map an empirical lexical category to its theory-side categorizer.
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- Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015.lexCatToCategorizer Phenomena.Morphology.CategoryChanging.LexCat.verb = Minimalism.Cat.v
- Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015.lexCatToCategorizer Phenomena.Morphology.CategoryChanging.LexCat.noun = Minimalism.Cat.n
- Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015.lexCatToCategorizer Phenomena.Morphology.CategoryChanging.LexCat.adjective = Minimalism.Cat.a
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The mapping is a partial bijection: lexCat → categorizer → lexCat roundtrips.
Every categorizer maps to some LexCat.
Non-categorizers don't map to any LexCat.
Does a categorizer produce a category with sortal perspective? Panagiotidis §4.3: [N] = sortal perspective / referentiality. Items bearing [N] have the capacity to introduce discourse referents (nouns, adjectives) — items lacking [N] do not (verbs).
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Does a categorizer produce a category with temporal perspective? Panagiotidis §4.3: [V] = temporal perspective / eventivity. Items bearing [V] can anchor to time/events (verbs, adjectives) — items lacking [V] do not have temporal anchoring (nouns).
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Nouns have sortal but not temporal perspective: n bears [N] only.
Verbs have temporal but not sortal perspective: v bears [V] only.
Adjectives have both sortal and temporal perspective: a bears [N, V].
The noun–verb asymmetry: nouns have sortal but not temporal perspective; verbs have temporal but not sortal perspective. Adjectives have both. This follows from the [N]/[V] feature distribution on categorizers.
Each categorizer forms a well-formed EP with its lexical anchor: V→v, N→n, A→a are all category-consistent and F-monotone.
The F-level jump from lexical head to categorizer is exactly 1 in all cases. The uniformity of categorization is Panagiotidis's prediction (§4.4–§4.5); the F-value encoding is @cite{grimshaw-2005}'s EP architecture.
All categorizers sit at exactly F1 (in Grimshaw's system), parallel across families. Panagiotidis's core claim: v, n, a are structurally parallel — they differ only in which interpretable features they bear.
The categorizers are in their respective families.
Category-changing morphology = changing the categorizer. The same root under different categorizers yields items in different EP families — this is what it means to "change category."
A root family is predicted to be tricategorial iff categorization by each of v, n, a is possible. Since all three categorizers are available in English, any root can in principle surface in all three categories.
The √DESTROY family's three categories correspond to three categorizers.
Every root family in the sample has a form for each categorizer's category.