Beyond Morphology: Interface Conditions on Word Formation

by Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199267286
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/23/2004
Series:	Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics , #6
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Peter Ackema is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements1. Morphology and Modularity2. Arguments for Word Syntax3. Competition Between Syntax and Morphology4. Generalized Insertion5. Distributed Selection6. Context-Sensitive Spell-Out and Adjacency7. PF Feature CheckingReferencesIndex

Editorial Reviews

"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

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