Legate (2008) proposes that the postsyntactic component of the grammar plays an important role in morphological case phenomena. Therefore, it is predicted that postsyntactic processes like Linearization may affect morphological case assignment. I argue that this prediction is correct by demonstrating that prepositional case in Scottish Gaelic is assigned solely under linear adjacency with P. To account for this, I propose that Morphological Case Assignment is a postsyntactic process derivationally ordered after Linearization, as in Arregi and Nevins 2012. This accounts for several typologically rare properties, such as the presence of closest conjunct case.

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苏格兰盖尔语的邻接和格形态

Legate（2008）提出，语法的后句法成分在形态学现象中起着重要的作用。因此，可以预料的是，诸如线性化之类的后语法过程可能会影响形态学案例分配。我通过证明苏格兰盖尔语中的介词宾语仅在与P的线性邻接下进行分配来证明这一预测是正确的。考虑到这一点，我建议形态学案例分配是线性化之后派生的后句法过程，如Arregi和Nevins 2012这说明了几种类型上罕见的属性，例如最接近的合取格的存在。