26.280, Books: Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure: Wood

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:39:33
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure: Wood

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Title: Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure 
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-3-319-09137-2 


Author: Jim Wood

Hardback: ISBN:  9783319091372 Pages: 337 Price: Europe EURO 129.99


Abstract:

This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure
alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on
recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology,
the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax
should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of
morphology to semantics. The resulting system forms sound-meaning pairs by
generating hierarchical structures that can be translated into morphological
representations, on the one hand, and semantic representations, on the other.
The syntactic primitives, however, underdetermine both morphophonology and
semantics. Without appealing to special stipulations, the theory derives
constraints on the external argument of causative-alternation verbs,
interpretive restrictions on nominative objects, and the optionally agentive
interpretation of verbs denoting self-directed motion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Icelandic (isl)


Written In: English  (eng)

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