Lexicalism and modular overlap in English

This paper argues that the lexicon-syntax divide, essential for the expression in Lexicalism of the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, is neither robust nor unique. English has compound-phrase hybrids for whose analysis the lexicon and the syntax must constitute overlapping modules. Similar overlap of modules previously thought to be sharply divided is present within the lexicon: stratal integrity fails to account for the occasional failure of strong stress preservation, for the sporadic occurrence of weak stress preservation, for the frequent adoption of stratum-1 phonotactic behaviour by stratum-2 morphological constructions, as well as for the occurrence of stratum-1 constructions displaying stratum-2 phonotactic structure