Hagit Borer: Série de conférences
Département d'Etudes Cognitives de l'ENS
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Le département d'études cognitives de l'Ecole
Normale Supérieure a le plaisir d'annoncer une
série de quatre conférences (qui seront données en Anglais):
Par: Pr. Hagit Borer (USC)
Sujet: The Syntax and the Morphology of Nominal Expressions
Dates: Les lundis 30 avril, 7 Mai, 14 Mai et 21 Mai
Horaires: 13h à 15h
Lieu: Salle INFO2, Immeuble Rataud, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris 5ème
Abstract:
In the type of lexicon proposed in Chomsky's
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) and in
"Remarks on Nominalizations" (1970), as well as
in the "lexicalist" models that emerged in the
'70s and '80s, a large role is played by listed
(arbitrary) information in the lexical entries of
(substantive) items. Such information could
include all or some of the following:
a. The sound-meaning pair
b. Syntactic category
c. Syntactic insertion frame (subcategorization)
d. Thematic roles
e. Derivational affixation
f. Inflectional affixation
At the same time, however, research during the
same decades also attempted to reduce the amount
of arbitrary information in the lexicon by
deriving at least some of the properties in (a-f)
from other components of the computational system.
The purpose of this series of talks will be to
investigate the structure of (referring) nominal
expressions, with a particular focus on the following:
A. The investigation of the possibility
of having a highly impoverished lexicon,
restricted to (1a), and deriving everything else
from (various) computational systems.
B. Postulate functional structures which
are semantically and/or morphologically
motivated, and which obviate the need for both
lexical listing and type shifting.
This issue will be investigated from the
perspective of DP structure. Topics discussed will be:
a. The lexical inventory: functional vs. substantive elements
b. Nominal Functional structure its
properties, its role, its interpretation.
c. The syntax and the morphology of
nominals derived from verbs and what it tells us
about the morphology-syntax interface.
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