Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova
This volume focuses on two main topics: comparative morphology (i.e. cross-linguistic analysis, including typology, dialectology and diachrony) and psycholinguistics (i.e. on-line processing, off-line experiments, child language). Since the psycholinguistic papers of this volume consistently refer… read more
In earlier work we claimed that a preposition prefixed to the complementizer in PP-interrogatives marks a clefting strategy, as opposed to long-distance wh-movement of PP. We now argue that claim was in error. All PP-interrogatives of the language make use of the clefting strategy. Prefixation… read more
We present data from a Middle Bavarian language in order to argue against the notions lexeme and paradigm. We argue that there is no level of abstraction at which lexemes have coherent properties, unless that level is the one of morphemes, i.e., of roots and affixes. Our argument is based on an… read more
