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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''No Vacuous Application Principle (NVAP)''' is a principle proposed in Marantz (1984) which states that an [[affix]] marked with a given [[feature value]] cannot attach to a [[stem]] bearing the same feature value. Marantz assumes that affixes are lexical items which have subcategorization frames indicating the category to which they attach, as well as other inherent features.<br /> <br /> === Example ===<br /> <br /> he assumes that the English passive affix -''en'' has the lexical entry (i):<br /> <br /> (i) -''en''&lt;nowiki&gt;: ]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;sub&gt;V&lt;/sub&gt; ___, [-logical subject] [-transitive]<br /> <br /> As a consequence of the NVAP, this affix may only be attached to stems bearing the features [+logical subject] [+transitive]. Amongst other things this will automatically prevent -''en'' from attaching to [[unaccusative verb]]s or to passive participles, since they are [-transitive] (= cannot take a direct object) and [-logical subject] (= do not assign a semantic role to an external argument).<br /> <br /> === Links ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=No+Vacuous+Application+Principle+(NVAP)&amp;lemmacode=495 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Marantz, A. 1984. ''On the Nature of Grammatical Relations,'' Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.<br /> * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]</div>

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