Syntactic Heads and Word Formation : A Study of Verbal Inflection.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax SerPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (416 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195348828Subject(s): Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb | Order (Grammar)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Syntactic Heads and Word Formation : A Study of Verbal InflectionDDC classification: 415 LOC classification: P281.J85 2002Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Introduction: An Overview of the Work -- 1 On Syntax and Complex Words -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 The lexicalist controversy -- 1.3 An outline of the model -- 1.4 The concept of 'word' -- 1.5 A survey of word order and morpheme order -- 2 Head Movement and Complex Heads -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 The trigger of head movement -- 2.3 Excorporation -- 2.4 Merger of adjacent heads -- 2.5 The word properties of complex heads -- 3 Head-Final Languages -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 The specifier-head relation -- 3.3 Tense suffixes and verb-final order -- 3.4 Deriving head-final order -- 3.5 The properties of head-final languages -- 3.6 Final remarks on movement to Spec -- 4 Prefixes -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Complex words in Shona -- 4.3 Prefixes and free preposed markers -- 4.4 Final remarks on prefixing -- 5 The Distribution of Verbal Markers -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Word order and the positioning of verbal markers -- 5.3 Agreement markers -- 5.4 Potential counterexamples -- 5.5 Syntax and affixation rate -- 5.6 Final remarks -- 6 On the Morphology Module -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 Deviations from the agglutinative pattern -- 6.3 Derivation and compounding -- Conclusion: The Nature of Words -- Appendix 1: Symbols and Abbreviations -- Appendix 2: A Survey of Word Order and Verb Morphology -- References -- Other Sources Consulted for Language Classification and Language Data -- Language Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the position of those verbs. She surveys 530 languages and shows that, with the exception of agreement markers, the positioning of verbal inflectional markers relative to verb stems is compatible with a syntactic approach to morphology.
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