Beyond Morphology
Interface Conditions on Word Formation
Published on 7. October 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-19-926729-3 (ISBN)
Description
The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement in dialects of Dutch. Their exposition combines insights from lexicalism and distributed morphology, and is expressed in terms accessible to scholars and advanced students.
- unique exploration of interfaces of morphology with syntax and phonology
- wide empirical scope with many new observations
- theoretically innovative and important
- accessible to students with chapters designed for use in teaching
- unique exploration of interfaces of morphology with syntax and phonology
- wide empirical scope with many new observations
- theoretically innovative and important
- accessible to students with chapters designed for use in teaching
Reviews / Votes
well thought through, carefully executed...should prove a worthwhile read for anyone interested in morphology...breadth of the data covered is impressive...new perspectives, new ways of thinking. * The Linguist *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-926729-3 (9780199267293)
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10/2004
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Persons
Peter Ackema is lecturer in Dutch Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. He has worked extensively on issues regarding the morphology-syntax interface, on which he has published a book (Issues in Morphosyntax, 1999) as well as numerous articles. he has also published on a wide range of syntax-internal and morphology-internal topics, in such journals as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Yearbook of Morphology.
Ad Neeleman is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. His main research interests are case theory, the syntactic encoding of thematic dependencies, and the interaction between the syntax and syntax-external systems. Earlier works include Complex Predicates (1993), Flexible Syntax (1999, with Fred Weerman), and a number of articles in such journals as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Yearbook of Morphology.
Ad Neeleman is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. His main research interests are case theory, the syntactic encoding of thematic dependencies, and the interaction between the syntax and syntax-external systems. Earlier works include Complex Predicates (1993), Flexible Syntax (1999, with Fred Weerman), and a number of articles in such journals as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Yearbook of Morphology.
Content
Acknowledgements ; 1. Morphology and Modularity ; 2. Arguments for Word Syntax ; 3. Competition Between Syntax and Morphology ; 4. Generalized Insertion ; 5. Distributed Selection ; 6. Context-Sensitive Spell-Out and Adjacency ; 7. PF Feature Checking ; References ; Index