Resumen de tesis doctoral: Benavides, Carlos. 1999. The Semantics of Spanish Morphology. University of Iowa

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                 Resumen de tesis doctoral:
   Benavides, Carlos. 1999. The Semantics of Spanish Morphology.
   University of Iowa.
      Informacion de Carlos Benavides <cbenavides at umassd.edu>
               distribuida por Liguist List:
         http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-836.html
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1. Autor:
   Carlos Benavides

2. Título de la tesis:
   The Semantics of Spanish Morphology
   2.1 Número de páginas:
   2.2 Palabras clave: Spanish, Semantics, Morphology

3. Fecha de lectura:
   1999

4. Departamento, centro o laboratorio en el que se ha desarrollado
   la tesis:
   Department of Linguistics
   University of Iowa
   USA

5. Directores de la tesis:
   William Davies, Alice Davison, Sarah Fagan, Paula Kempchinsky


6. Proyecto o línea de investigación en el que se incluye:



7. Resumen:

   This study focuses on the analysis of Spanish derivational morphology
(e.g. the derivative demol + icion 'demolition') and presents a
morphosemantic model that contributes to a solution of the problem of
the lack of semantic analyses within derivational morphology. The three
key elements of the model are the mechanisms of feature percolation and
subcategorization/selection, and the notion of slot structure.

   Crucial to the model is that both percolation and
subcategorization/selection, as well as slot structure, take into
account both syntactic and semantic information, including information
about argument structure. Models that separate syntactic from semantic
information need to posit three separate types of rules acting
independently of each other:

   - subcategorization rules,
   - selectional rules, and
   - rules that deal with argument structure.

By contrast, the present model reduces the machinery of the grammar by
proposing only two mechanisms (percolation and
subcategorization/selection) that depend on each other and act in
concert. In addition, the mechanism of percolation integrates slot
structure into the system by manipulating its content. Within the model,
several principles, conditions and constraints that have been proposed
in the morphological literature are incorporated in the mechanisms of
percolation and subcategorization/selection. In addition to Spanish
derivation, the model adequately accounts for non-derivational
affixation (e.g. inflection), as well as the derivational morphology of
several languages genetically unrelated to Spanish, which suggests that
the notions of percolation, subcategorization/selection, and slot
structure are universal constructs.


8. Dirección postal, fax o correo-e del autor:
   Carlos Benavides <cbenavides at umassd.edu>


9. Posibilidad de obtener un ejemplar de la tesis:


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