Adjective Incorporation and the Morphosyntactic Interface: a Postsyntactic Approach to Word Formation - Abdulrahman Almansour - Books - VDM Verlag Dr. Müller - 9783639104905 - January 6, 2009
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Adjective Incorporation and the Morphosyntactic Interface: a Postsyntactic Approach to Word Formation

Abdulrahman Almansour

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Adjective Incorporation and the Morphosyntactic Interface: a Postsyntactic Approach to Word Formation

The determination of the component of Universal Grammar where word formation takes place has been a major area of controversy in the literature. The main goal of this book is to uncover the component of Universal Grammar where a morphologically-complex de-adjectival verb is formed. It shows that although the internal structure of morphologically-complex de-adjectival causatives is empirically and theoretically predicted to be opaque to phrase-level operations (Borer 1991; Li 2005), syntactic processes and descriptions are not oblivious to the internal structure of that derived structure in Oromo and Amharic. Building on a well-motivated assumption that there is no well-formed syntactic structure into which a synthetic de-adjectival verb might project (Li 2005), we advance an argument to the effect that both members of those derived de- adjectival causatives are lexically independent. Inspired by work done in Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993), we maintain that a merger of the members of de-adjectival causatives takes place post-syntactically in an intermediate level of representation called morphological structure (MS).

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 6, 2009
ISBN13 9783639104905
Publishers VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Pages 144
Dimensions 199 g
Language English