28.3757, Books: Spelling Out P: Pretorius

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Subject: 28.3757, Books: Spelling Out P: Pretorius

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:39:29
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Spelling Out P: Pretorius

Title: Spelling Out P 
Subtitle: A Unified Syntax of Afrikaans Adpositions and V-Particles 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/spelling-out-p 

Author: Erin Pretorius

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932380 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

Function words and morphemes are frequently subject to systematic (micro-)
categorial “shifts” – they are syncretic. The right model of syncretism opens
a window on the incontestably fuzzy nature of syntactic categories and
provides a powerful tool for analysing fine-grained structure, and teasing
apart various syntax interface processes relating to Spellout. One important
fact about syncretism is that it poses a challenge to the ontologically
primitive syntactic category.

This dissertation develops an integrated theory about the internal composition
of syntactic categories and how this brings about the observable category
effects, i.e. all the morphosyntactic characteristics associated with a
particular category. With a highly concentrated empirical focus on the Spatial
P (adpositional) domain of Afrikaans, the theory puts forth a unified account
of simplex and complex prepositional phrases, circumpositional phrases,
doubling adpositional phrases, and P-based verbal particles. It is argued that
the functions of this domain correspond to ordered formal features in a fixed
functional spine, and that syncretic elements are specified for the full range
of features which they have the capacity to express, but that they need not
always lexicalise all the features for which they are specified. Accordingly,
category effects arise as an epiphenomenon of the particular set of features
an element lexicalises at a particular insertion site. On this model,
individual lexical items may span conventional category boundaries, accounting
for the multiple category membership of some functional elements. Importantly,
category boundaries are non-discreet and the account holds that the formal
mechanisms conditioning multiple macro-category membership (e.g. P and N or V)
are identical to those conditioning multiple micro-category membership (e.g.
locative and directional adposition).

This book is of interest to linguists working on the nature of syntactic
categories, approaches to the formal modelling of spatial relations, the
morphosyntax of ((West) Germanic) spatial expressions.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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