Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax

Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax
Author :
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 210
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789027227409
ISBN-13 : 9027227403
Rating : 4/5 (403 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax by : Gunlög Josefsson

Download or read book Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax written by Gunlög Josefsson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic approach to word structure of the Principles and Parameters framework is replaced by a rule free approach incorporating only Merge and Move as structure building devices. The author argues that stems have no word class features, which are provided inflectional affixes (including theme vowels etc.). Inflectional and derivational affixes differ only in the external syntactic requirement that inflectional affixes are associated with features that require checking in the functional domain. An important analysis of compounding is included, where binding elements are analyzed as a result of structural antisymmetry requirements a la Kayne (1994). Old chestnuts of morphological theory, such as the notion “head of a word” and the nature and structure of the lexicon, are succinctly discussed in the light of the theoretical proposals advanced here. On the empirical side, there are two lengthy chapters involving the semantic characterization of prefixes and suffixes in Swedish, explaining their distribution in terms of “types of Aktionsarten” imposed by the affix on its host.


Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax Related Books

Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Gunlög Josefsson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to
Mind Design and Minimal Syntax
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Wolfram Hinzen
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Wolfram Hinzen introduces generative grammar and asks what it tells us about the human mind. He argues that the mind is the product not of adaptive evolutionary
Minimalist Syntax
Language: en
Pages: 532
Authors: Andrew Radford
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-05-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Publisher Description
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Acrisio Pires
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-31 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis
Word Order Change in Icelandic
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-23 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patt