On the Definition of Word - Couverture souple

Di Sciullo, Anna Maria; Williams, Edwin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262540479 ISBN 13 : 9780262540476

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1987

Synopsis

On the Definition of Word develops a consistent and coherent approach to central questions about morphology and its relation to syntax. In sorting out the various senses in which the word word is used, it asserts that three concepts which have often been identified with each other are in fact distinct and not coextensive: listemes (linguistic objects permanently stored by the speaker); morphological objects (objects whose shape can be characterized in morphological terms of affixation and compounding); and syntactic atoms (objects that are unanalyzable units with respect to syntax). The first chapter defends the idea that listemes are distinct from the other two notions, and that all one can and should say about them is that they exist. A theory of morphological objects is developed in chapter two. Chapter three defends the claim that the morphological objects are a proper subset of the syntactic atoms, presenting the authors' reconstruction of the important and much-debated Lexical Integrity Hypothesis. A final chapter shows that there are syntactic atoms which are not morphological objects.

On The Definition of Word is Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 14.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Maria Di Sciullo is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Quebec at Montreal. She is the author of Théorie et description en grammaire générative, and (with Edwin Williams) On the Definition of the Word (MIT Press). She is the editor of Configurations: Essays on Form and Interpretation, and Projections and Interface Conditions: Essays on Modularity.

Edwin Williams is Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262540479
• ISBN 13: 9780262540476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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• Personne responsable: non disponible