Mixed Categories

The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification

AvIrina Nikolaeva,Andrew Spencer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Exploring the phenomenon of 'mixed categories', this book is the first in-depth study of the way in which languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another noun. It investigates noun-adjective hybrids - adjectives and adjective-like attributive forms which have been derived from nouns and systematically retain certain nominal properties. These rarely-discussed types of mixed category raise a number of important theoretical questions about the nature of lexemic identity, the inflection-derivation divide, and more generally, the relationship between the structure of words and their phrasal syntax. The book proposes a new formal framework that models cross-linguistic and cross-constructional variation in noun modification constructions. The framework it offers enables readers to explicitly map word structure to syntactic structure, providing new insights into, and impacting upon, all current theoretical models of grammar.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-31
Mått:158 x 236 x 26 mm
Vikt:710 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Antal sidor:418
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108415514

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Irina A. Nikolaeva author of multiple linguistic publications including Objects and Information Structure (with M. Dalrymple, Cambridge, 2011) and Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory: A Study in the Morphosyntax of Relative Clauses (with F. Ackerman, 2013). Andrew Spencer is the author of over 100 publications in linguistics, including Morphological Theory (1991), Clitics (with A. Luís, Cambridge, 2012) and Lexical Relatedness (2013). He is a co-editor of the journal Word Structure.

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'I have no doubt that, across different theoretical approaches, the contribution of this monograph will have a broad impact in the linguistic community.' Antonio Fábregas, Language

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: word categories and category mixing; 2. Modification constructions; 3. Categorial mixing in the nominal phrase; 4. Approaches to mixed categories; 5. Lexical representation and lexical relatedness; 6. Generalized paradigm function morphology; 7. Attributive modification in lexicalist morphosyntax; 8. Noun-adjective hybrids; 9. Conclusions and prospects.