32.3770, Books: Morphology-Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical Features: Smith

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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:45:53
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Morphology-Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical Features: Smith

 


Title: Morphology-Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical
Features 
Series Title: Interface Explorations  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501511127/html 


Author: Peter W. Smith

Electronic: ISBN:  9781501511127 Pages:  Price: ----  
Hardback: ISBN:  9781501517198 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Hybrid nouns have a morphological shape that does not match their semantic
interpretation. Such nouns pose clear and interesting questions for the nature
of grammatical features. For instance, how does a single feature contribute
distinct information values to different components of the grammar?
Furthermore, what does this observation reveal about the syntax, often taken
to mediate between the morphology and the semantics?

This book studies hybrid nouns and argues that a single grammatical feature is
comprised of two halves, a semantic half and a morphological half, that
coexist in the syntax before being sent to the respective interfaces. Viewing
features in this way allows us a new look at numerous types of hybrid nouns,
such as Imposter constructions, nouns of collection, as well as nouns like
‘furniture’ that straddle the mass-count distinction. Moreover, the study of
the agreement patterns of hybrid nouns shows that semantic features behave
differently to morphological features under agreement, providing a novel
insight into the nature of the mechanism that underlies morphosyntactic
agreement.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Algonquin (alq)
                     English (eng)
                     Halkomelem (hur)


Written In: English  (eng)

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