Theoretical Issues at the Morphology-syntax Interface
Title | Theoretical Issues at the Morphology-syntax Interface PDF eBook |
Author | Amaya Mendikoetxea |
Publisher | Universidad del Pais Vasco |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Morphology-syntax interface. Generalized person-case constraint. Causation hierarchy, semantic control and eventivity in Nisgha. Deep unaccusativity and zero syntax in St'át'imcets. 'Out of control' in Salish and event (de)composition. Spanish event infinitives. Feature licensing, morphological words and phonological domains in Basque. The limits of argument structure. Verb incorporation and causation types. Parameter variation in determiner systems: Salish vs. English. Argument structure and animacy entailment. Nested paths in syntactically ergative languages. Disagreement between adults and children. Locative sentences and related constructions in Catalan.
Beyond Morphology
Title | Beyond Morphology PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackema |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2004-10-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199267286 |
The authors provide a compelling argument for a radically modular view of the human language faculty. The authors argue that complex words are generated by a dedicated rule system which interacts with the syntax on the one hand and the phonology on the other.
X P0 S
Title | X P0 S PDF eBook |
Author | Yafei Li |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
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XO
Title | XO PDF eBook |
Author | Yafei Li |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2004-12-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780262263603 |
This important monograph offers a resolution to the debate in theoretical linguistics over the role of syntactic head movement in word formation. It does so by synthesizing the syntactic and lexicalist approaches on the basis of the empirical data that support each side. In trying to determine how a morphologically complex word is formed in Universal Grammar, generative linguists have argued either that a substantial amount of morphological phenomena result from head movement in overt syntax (the widely adopted syntactic approach) or that morphological/lexical means are both necessary and sufficient for a theory of word formation (the Lexicalist Hypothesis). Li examines both the linguistic facts that are brought to light for the first time and the existing data in the literature and shows that each side has an empirical foundation that cannot be negated by the other. Since neither approach is adequate to explain all the facts of word formation, he argues, the way to achieve a unified account lies in synthesizing the empirically advantageous portions of both approaches into one simple and coherent theory. Li begins by demonstrating how a theory that combines the essence of the syntactic and lexicalist approaches can account more accurately for the various morphological constructions analyzed in the literature by means of syntactic verb incorporation. He then examines causativization on the adjectival root, noun incorporation in polysynthetic languages, and the possibility that the word formation part of the Lexicalist Hypothesis—which is crucial to his theory—can be derived as a theorem from a version of the X-bar theory. He concludes by discussing methodological issues in current linguistic research.
X0
Title | X0 PDF eBook |
Author | Yafei Li |
Publisher | The MIT Press |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780262621915 |
A synthesis of the syntactic and lexicalist approaches to word formation.
Xâ°
Title | Xâ° PDF eBook |
Author | Yafei Li |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
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Morphology and Its Interfaces
Title | Morphology and Its Interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Galani |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902725561X |
One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls together research into Morphology and its interfaces from researchers employing a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: Morphology is a diverse field, and rather than aiming to collect works sharing a particular approach or framework of assumptions, this collection instead captures the diversity and provides an overview of the state of the research field while also addressing particular empirical phenomena with up-to-date analyses. The articles collected provide case studies from a diverse variety of languages revealing properties of the interfaces that morphology shares with syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon, while the volume's inclusive cross-theoretical approach will serve to introduce readers to the findings of alternative frameworks and methodologies.