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Issues in Morphosyntax.
Title:
Issues in Morphosyntax.
Author:
Ackema, Peter.
ISBN:
9789027282255
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Series:
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Contents:
ISSUES IN MORPHOSYNTAX -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1. The morphology-syntax interface revisited -- 2. Structure above and below zero: negative bar levels -- 3. Selection above and below zero: against syntactic affixation -- 3.1 Morphological selection versus syntactic selection -- 3.2 Derivational affixes -- 3.3 Inflectional affixes -- 4. Conclusion -- 2. Noun Incorporation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. NI as N-V compounding -- 2.1 Empirical evidence against syntactic analyses of NI -- 2.2 Two types of NI: a morphological analysis6 -- 2.3 Productivity -- 2.4 Referentiality -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3. Ø-theory and the locality of NI -- 3.1 Ø-theory -- 3.2 The locality of NI -- 3.2.1 Direct objects -- 3.2.2 Subjects -- 3.2.3 Indirect objects -- 4. Compounding versus head movement -- 4.1 On the (im)possibility of incorporation of ECM subjects -- 4.2 Wh-movement of the object -- 4.3 NI and lack of Case assignment -- 4.4 'Ordinary' N-V compounding and head movement -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. The Morphosyntax of Periphrastic Participial Constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 2.1 Unaccusativity: syntax and/or semantics -- 2.2 The identity of passive and perfect participle -- 2.3 Structural and thematic properties of auxiliaries -- 2.3.1 Structural properties of auxiliaries -- 2.3.2 Thematic properties of auxiliaries -- 3. Periphrastic passives -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Personal passives -- 3.3 Impersonal passives and the nonpassivizability of unaccusatives -- 4. Periphrastic perfects -- 4.1 Thematic structure in perfects and auxiliary selection -- 4.2 Apparent unaccusative-unergative alternations and other problems -- 4.2.1 Unergatives with a directional phrase -- 4.2.2 Unaccusatives with a reflexive -- 4.2.3 Transitives with BE?.

4.3 Variation and change in auxiliary selection -- 4.3.1 Auxiliary selection in older English and Dutch -- 4.3.2. Case, Α-chain formation and auxiliaries -- 4.3.3 BE + unaccusative in Modern Dutch -- 4.3.4 HAVE or BE + unaccusative in older Germanic -- 4.3.5 HAVE + unaccusative in Modern English -- 4.3.6 The loss of HAVE + unaccusative in Dutch -- 4.3.7 The loss of BE + unaccusative in English -- 4.4 Perfect passives -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. Synthetic and semisynthetic paradigms -- 6. Adjectival versus verbal participles -- 7. From synthetic to periphrastic -- 7.1 Reanalysis -- 7.2 Head movement analyses of the synthetic-periphrastic distinction -- 7.3 Conclusion: deflexion, semantics and the development of periphrases -- 4. Deriving Lexical Integrity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Words as islands for movement -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The ins and outs of excorporation -- 2.3 Locality conditions on movement -- 2.4 Words as islands for affix-movement -- 2.5 Words as islands for movement of free morphemes -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3. Binding and coreference below zero -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Binding -- 3.3 Coreference -- 4. Other phenomena involving lexical integrity -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Mismatches between Morphosyntax and Morphophonology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Affix-based vs. process-based approaches to morphology -- 3. The difference between AFFIXATION and affixation -- 3.1 Splitting morphology6 -- 3.2 Application: the structure of N-V compounds12 -- 3.3. Conclusion -- 4. The relation between AFFIXATION and affixation -- 4.1 Optimal words -- 4.2 Application: nonagglutinative morphology -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Of particular interest to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax aims to contribute to the discussion on the question whether there exists a separate morphological module in the grammar, distinct from the other modules, with special focus on the connection of morphology with syntax. The view that is defended is that morphological operations do not take place in syntax, but that they are governed by the same principles that govern syntax. There are morphological categories distinct from syntactic categories, which appear in their own domain, below the zero X-bar level, so in this sense there is a morphological module. However, this module is not distinct from the syntactic one, in the sense that the same principles apply equally to the morphological and the syntactic domain. Specific topics of discussion include Noun Incorporation, past participle constructions in Germanic (passives, perfects, and auxiliary selection) and Lexical Integrity effects.
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