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Date: 12-Dec-2011
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Roots and Affixes: De Belder


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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:04:52
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Roots and Affixes: De Belder

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Title: Roots and Affixes 
Subtitle: Eliminating Lexical Categories from Syntax 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Marijke De Belder

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930652 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 


Abstract:

Roots and Affixes is an investigation into the primitives of syntax. It focuses on 
the lexical projection and the categorial head. Accordingly, it consists of two 
parts. The first part argues that the features of lexical vocabulary items (such 
as light and kiss) are not an active part of the syntactic derivation. The author 
provides empirical support for the claim that vocabulary items are inserted post-
syntactically, adopting the view that syntax operates on UG-features only. She 
argues that the root terminal node is a by-product of the operation Merge that is 
characterized by the mere absence of features. It is further shown that 
functional structure determines subcategories of lexical items. In the second 
part of the thesis it is argued that categorial heads do not exist. As a result, 
derivational affixes do not realize categorial heads. The author proposes instead 
that derivational affixes are lexical vocabulary items which realize root 
positions. It is shown that the abandonment of categorial heads does not lead to 
a loss of explanatory adequacy. The general conclusion is that lexical categorial 
features are not a primitive of syntax. 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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