基本説明
This book provides a compelling argument for a radically modular view of the human language faculty. It does so on the basis of the most comprehensive study to date of how word formation is constrained by different components of the grammar.
Full 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
Contents
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
