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The determination of the component of Universal Grammar where word formation takes place has been a major area of controversy in the literature. The main goal of this book is to uncover the component of Universal Grammar where a morphologically-complex de-adjectival verb is formed. It shows that although the internal structure of morphologically-complex de-adjectival causatives is empirically and theoretically predicted to be opaque to phrase-level operations (Borer 1991; Li 2005), syntactic processes and descriptions are not oblivious to the internal structure of that derived structure in…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The determination of the component of Universal
Grammar where word formation takes place has been a
major area of controversy in the literature. The
main goal of this book is to
uncover the component of Universal Grammar where a
morphologically-complex de-adjectival verb is
formed. It shows that although the internal
structure of morphologically-complex de-adjectival
causatives is empirically and theoretically
predicted to be opaque to phrase-level operations
(Borer 1991; Li 2005), syntactic processes and
descriptions are not oblivious to the internal
structure of that derived structure in Oromo and
Amharic. Building on a well-motivated assumption
that there is no well-formed syntactic structure
into which a synthetic de-adjectival verb might
project (Li 2005), we advance an argument to the
effect that both members of those derived de-
adjectival causatives are lexically independent.
Inspired by work done in Distributed Morphology
(Halle & Marantz 1993), we maintain that a merger of
the members of de-adjectival causatives takes place
post-syntactically in an intermediate level of
representation called morphological structure (MS).
Autorenporträt
Abdulrahman H. Almansour, PhD: earned his PhD in Theoretical
Linguistics in 2004 from the Department of Linguistics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently he is vice-dean for
Academic Affairs, College of Languages and Translation, King
Saud University.