Hagit Borer

Structuring Sense

Volume III: Taking Form

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hagit Borer develops a new model of word formation, arguing that on the one hand the basic building blocks of language are rigid semantic and syntactic functions, while on the other hand they are roots, which in themselves are but packets of phonological information, and are devoid of both meaning and grammatical properties of any kind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 698
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1042g
• ISBN-13: 9780199263943
• ISBN-10: 0199263949
• Artikelnr.: 42358035

Autorenporträt

Hagit Borer is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to that, she held positions at the University of Southern California and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her main research focuses on the interaction between syntactic structure and word structure, an area that she has pursued from a syntactic perspective, from a morphological perspective, from a semantic perspective, and from the perspective of child language acquisition.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents to Volumes I and II
1: Introduction - Words? What Words?
Part I: The Syntax of Derived Nominals
2: Introduction
3: Embedding Syntactic Events Within Nominals
4: AS-Nominals and AS-Nominalizers
5: Event Structure in Short Nominals, the Passive Paradigm
Part II: Taking Form
6: The Skeleton
7: Categorizing Roots
8: Taking Root
9: Structuring Content
10: Taking Form by Phase
11: Semitic Verbal Derivatives - a Prolegomena
12: Synthetic Compounds
13: Conclusion
References
Index

Rezensionen

Syntacticians like Borer define the big research questions for the rest of us. Two provocative and inspiring books. Angelika Kratzer