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PartOne.ContrastiveStudiesofLanguageStructures
Asindicatedin(7a),Vilamoviandomainscanstartwitheither
afilledormelodicallyemptyonsetconstituent.Compareeerandhac.
Otheroptionsareabranchingonsetstructureasinfretakandadegen-
eraterhymeheadedbyanemptynucleus,asinśtükla.Therespective
structuresaredepictedin(8)below.
(8)
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ComparingtheVilamovian-specificstructuresallowedintheword-
initialcontexttothoseattestedinEnglish,wehavetoconcludethat
nodiferencescanbeobservedbetweenthetwosystems.Thesecanbe
identifiedword-finally
.Whatseemstobecommon,however,istheop-
erationoftheFinalEmptyNucleusParameterwhichinbothsystemsis
switchedON.NoticethatVilamovianpossessesconsonant-terminating
words.Yet,apartfromsingleconsonantsassociatedwithnon-branch-
ingonsets,wecanalsofindrhymalcomplement-onsetgoverningdo-
mainsattheendofwords,asinnist.Here,theplosive–thegovernor
–governstheprecedingfricativeintherhymalcomplementposition.
Importantly,therelationisgovernment–licensedbytheword-final
emptynucleus.Thiskindoflicenseisdirectsincethepotentialgov-
ernorisimmediatelyadjacenttothegovernment-licenser.Wehave
seenthatEnglishresemblesVilamovianinthisrespect.BothEnglish
andVilamovianword-finalemptynucleicanperformthefunctionof
directgovernment-licensers.However,onlyinVilamoviancanthey
functionasindirectgovernment-licensers.Wordssuchasenglclearly
revealthatpropertyoffinalnucleiinthislanguage.Considerthe
structurein(9).
Therepresentationdepictsthatthedomainfinisheswithabranching
onset[gl]followedbyanemptynucleusN
2.InEnglishnobranching
onsetsareallowedattheendofwords.InVilamovian,ontheother
hand,afinalemptynuclearpositionisstrongenoughtoendowthe
governor[g]withapotentialtogovernitsonsetcomplement[l],and
additionally
,theprecedingrhymalcomplementpoint[n].Thelicense
togovernistransferredontothepotentialgovernorindirectly
.Itcanbe
concluded,therefore,thatVilamovianword-finalemptynucleiarestrong
