33.3310, Books: Mixed Categories: Nikolaeva, Spencer

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:15:32
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Mixed Categories: Nikolaeva, Spencer

 


Title: Mixed Categories 
Subtitle: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics   164  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/mixed-categories-morphosyntax-noun-modification?format=PB 


Author: Irina Nikolaeva
Author: Andrew Spencer

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108401524 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108401524 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108401524 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 32.67


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

Exploring the phenomenon of 'mixed categories', this book is the first
in-depth study of the way in which languages can use a noun, as opposed to an
adjective, to modify another noun. It investigates noun-adjective hybrids -
adjectives and adjective-like attributive forms which have been derived from
nouns and systematically retain certain nominal properties. These
rarely-discussed types of mixed category raise a number of important
theoretical questions about the nature of lexemic identity, the
inflection-derivation divide, and more generally, the relationship between the
structure of words and their phrasal syntax. The book proposes a new formal
framework that models cross-linguistic and cross-constructional variation in
noun modification constructions. The framework it offers enables readers to
explicitly map word structure to syntactic structure, providing new insights
into, and impacting upon, all current theoretical models of grammar.
 



1. Introduction: word categories and category mixing; 2. Modification
constructions; 3. Categorial mixing in the nominal phrase; 4. Approaches to
mixed categories; 5. Lexical representation and lexical relatedness; 6.
Generalized paradigm function morphology; 7. Attributive modification in
lexicalist morphosyntax; 8. Noun-adjective hybrids; 9. Conclusions and
prospects.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=163355




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