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Beyond Morphology: Interface Conditions on Word Formation by Peter Ackema (Department of Dutch, University of Nijmegen)

The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement in dialects of Dutch. Their exposition combines insights from lexicalism and distributed morphology, and is expressed in terms accessible to scholars and advanced students.

- unique exploration of interfaces of morphology with syntax and phonology
- wide empirical scope with many new observations
- theoretically innovative and important
- accessible to students with chapters designed for use in teaching

About Peter Ackema (Department of Dutch, University of Nijmegen)

Peter Ackema is lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked extensively on issues regarding the morphology-syntax interface, on which he has published a book (Issues in Morphosyntax, 1999) as well as numerous articles. he has also published on a wide range of syntax-internal and morphology-internal topics, in such journals as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Yearbook of Morphology. Ad Neeleman is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. His main research interests are case theory, the syntactic encoding of thematic dependencies, and the interaction between the syntax and syntax-external systems. Earlier works include Complex Predicates (1993), Flexible Syntax (1999, with Fred Weerman), and a number of articles in such journals as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Yearbook of Morphology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ; 1. Morphology and Modularity ; 2. Arguments for Word Syntax ; 3. Competition Between Syntax and Morphology ; 4. Generalized Insertion ; 5. Distributed Selection ; 6. Context-Sensitive Spell-Out and Adjacency ; 7. PF Feature Checking ; References ; Index

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NPB9780199267286
9780199267286
0199267286
Beyond Morphology: Interface Conditions on Word Formation by Peter Ackema (Department of Dutch, University of Nijmegen)
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Oxford University Press
2004-10-07
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