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Lexical Structures: Compounding and the Modules of Grammar (Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics) - Softcover

Buch 4 von 4: Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Heinz J Giegerich

 
9781399572651: Lexical Structures: Compounding and the Modules of Grammar (Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)

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Proposes a tripartite structure for the study of grammar comprising the lexicon, the morphology and the syntax

  • Brings together the subjects of English compounding and Chomsky's theory of Lexicalism
  • Includes a detailed study of compound words in English
  • Proposes a new model of grammatical modularity

Bringing together the subjects of English compounding and Chomsky’s theory of ‘Lexicalism’, Heinz Giegerich demonstrates the impossibility of drawing a line between compounds and phrases, and therefore between the lexicon and the syntax, the two grammatical modules of Lexicalism. Proposing a new model of grammatical modularity, where the lexicon and the syntax overlap ‘like slates on a roof’, Giegerich examines long-standing and unresolved questions about the difference between English compounds and phrases. With its detailed study of compound words in English and its comprehensive analysis of Lexicalism’s theoretical framework, Lexical Structures: Compounding and the Modules of Grammar will be of profound interest for all researchers and students with an interest in English linguistics, and in morphological, syntactic or phonological theory.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Heinz Giegerich is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His previous publications include Metrical Phonology and Phonological Structure (CUP 1985), English Phonology (CUP 1992), Lexical Strata in English (CUP 1999) and Lexical Structures: Compounding and the Modules of Grammar (EUP 2015). At EUP he is the editor of the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language book series and a co-founder of the journal Word Structure.

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