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Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax
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The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lexical-functional grammar to grammaticalization theory, taking into account both synchronic variation and diachronic change.
The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.
The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 180] 1999. viii, 312 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 18 May 2011
Published online on 18 May 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction | pp. 1–10
- I. Morphological Phenomena and their Boundaries
- Between Morphology and Syntax: On the verbal morphology of some Alpine dialectsPaola Benincà | p. 11
- Compounding: Morphology and/or Syntax?Antonietta Bisetto and Sergio Scalise | p. 31
- The Effect of Noun Incorporation on Argument StructureMarianne Mithun and Greville G. Corbett | p. 49
- Lexical-Functional Morphology and the Structure of the LexiconChristoph Schwarze | p. 73
- Somali as a Polysynthetic LanguageMarco Svolacchia and Annarita Puglielli | p. 97
- Dutch Verbal Prefixes: Meaning and form, grammaticalization and lexicalizationJohan van der Auwera | p. 121
- The Irrealis in the Polish Language: A question of verbal moods, conjunctions or the modal particle by?Maria Zaleska | p. 137
- II. Morpho-Syntax and Pragmatics
- Morphological and Syntactical Complexity in French Interrogative PredicatesClaire Blanche-Benveniste | p. 159
- Integrating Pragmatics into the GrammarElisabet Engdahl | p. 175
- Subject, Nominative Case, Agreement and FocusMara Frascarelli | p. 195
- The English Cleft Construction as a Focus PhraseKatalin É. Kiss | p. 217
- Agreement, Pronominalization and Word Order in Pragmatically-Oriented LanguagesLunella Mereu | p. 231
- III. Morpho-Syntax and Semantics
- Thematic-Role Assignment and Aspect in Italian Pronominal Verbs: A lexicological studyVincenzo Lo Cascio and Elisabetta Jezek | p. 253
- Syntactic Optionality and Lexical Semantics: The case of English manner of motion verbsStella Markantonatou | p. 271
- Labile Orders and Grammatical Functions: The functional representation of one-argument structuresRosanna Sornicola | p. 291
- General Index | pp. 307–314
“Overall, the volume will appeal to an audience interested in current approaches to morphology and its interaction with syntax. [...] and the breadth of the volume should prove equally appealing to anyone interested in the semantic and pragmatic aspects of word structure.”
Ana R. Luís, University of Coimbra/University of Essex in Yearbook of Morphology, 2001
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