A syntactic analysis of inflectional irregularities in the future and the conditional
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The goal of this article is to provide an account of the inflectional irregularities of future and conditional form irregularities through a Nanosyntactic account in which irregularity arises as a result of the rivalry between exponents that compete to materialize the same syntactic space. The analysis proposes that irregular verbs store an exponent that lexicalizes part of the functional material of the modal area; these exponents, when they are present, are also used in the imperative mood, which explains why irregular verbs in the imperative are also irregular in the future and conditional.
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