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Morphological paradigms
In Distributed Morphology, morphological paradigms are largely seen as epiphenomena. Irregular forms or gaps associated with paradigms, such as 'go/went/gone' are explained via competition for vocabulary insertion. However, a recent discussion based on an analysis of (go-Ø/went) suggests that 'went' does not block '*goed' but rather 'go' cannot merge with the theme vowel '-e-' and then the past/perfect marker '-d'. Therefore, morphological paradigms may not necessarily be epiphenomenal and thus be explained not through competition in Vocabulary Insertion but rather MERGE is responsible for phonological and syntactic derivation.