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Linglib.Phenomena.Morphology.Studies.Panagiotidis2015

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 #

  1. Categorizer–LexCat correspondence: Each theory-side categorizer (v, n, a) maps to exactly one empirical lexical category (verb, noun, adjective).

  2. 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]).

  3. EP well-formedness: Each categorizer extends its lexical anchor into a well-formed EP (A→a, N→n, V→v).

  4. 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)
    ↓
THIS BRIDGE FILE
    ↓
Phenomena/Morphology/CategoryChanging.lean (RootFamily, LexCat)

The mapping is a partial bijection: lexCat → categorizer → lexCat roundtrips.

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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      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.

      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.