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Against category-less roots in syntax and word learning: objections to Barner and Bale (2002).
- Source :
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Lingua . Sep2005, Vol. 115 Issue 9, p1181-1194. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- This paper argues against analyzing grammatical category as a morphological epiphenomenon irrelevant for syntax. Using evidence from English and Greek it refutes the account in Barner and Bale [Lingua 112 (2002), 771], whereby coinages are derivations of the free syntactic insertion of roots in nominal and verbal environments, and presents evidence suggesting they are products of recta-linguistic processes. Rehearsing the discussion in Chomsky's Remarks on Nominalization [Readings in English Transformational Grammar (1970) 184], the paper goes on to show that seeking to syntactically derive nouns and verbs from roots stumbles upon the idiosyncratic differences many noun-verb pairs display between them. Towards this, it foregrounds the role of non-zero derivational morphology in Greek and Hungarian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00243841
- Volume :
- 115
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Lingua
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17529715
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2003.12.001