Mixed Categories: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification - Couverture rigide

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Nikolaeva, Irina; Spencer, Andrew

 
9781108415514: Mixed Categories: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification
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ISBN 10 : 1108415512 ISBN 13 : 9781108415514
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108415512
ISBN 13 
9781108415514
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
418
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Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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