A Phrasal Spell-Out account of denominals in English and Romanian

The aim of this paper is to provide an account of denominal verbs in English and Romanian in a phrasal spell-out framework (Pantcheva 2011, Starke 2009, 2011), arguing that a single item spells out various terminals: dance, for instance, spells out <init, Proc, N>, and shelve spells out <init, Proc, Path, Place, N>. Such an analysis does not need to resort to silent items. Moreover, it can capture very well the difference between denominals in English and Romanian, where denominal verbs are constituted of a root and a verbal affix.