31.1294, Books: Mixed Categories: Nikolaeva, Spencer

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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:53:19
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Mixed Categories: Nikolaeva, Spencer

 


Title: Mixed Categories 
Subtitle: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

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


Author: Irina Nikolaeva
Author: Andrew Spencer

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108415514 Pages: 418 Price: U.S. $ 125
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108415514 Pages: 418 Price: U.K. £ 95


Abstract:

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): General Linguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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