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Beyond Morphology
Interface Conditions on Word Formation

Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman

Price: £27.50 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926729-3
Publication date: 7 October 2004
318 pages, 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics number 6
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Description
  • Unique exploration of interfaces of morphology
  • Wide empirical scope
  • Accessible to experts and students, designed for use in classes
  • By two of Europe's brightest linguists
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


Readership: Students and researchers in (theoretical) linguistics

Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Morphology and Modularity
2. Arguments for Word Syntax
3. Competition Between Syntax and Morphology
4. Generalized Insertion
5. Distributed Selection
6. Context-Sensitive Spell-Out and Adjacency
7. PF Feature Checking
References
Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


Peter Ackema, Department of Dutch, University of Nijmegen and
Ad Neeleman, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London


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Morphology
Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

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