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Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax : Word formation in Swedish.

In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic appro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Josefsson, Gunlög
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Some reasons to study word formation
  • 1.2 The transformationalist vs. the lexicalist school
  • 1.3 Goal
  • 1.4 The scope of the study
  • 1.5 Productivity
  • 1.6 Productivity vs. creativity
  • 1.7 An overview of the present study
  • 1.8 The notational system
  • 1.9 Further reading
  • 2. Background theories
  • 2.1 The Minimalist Program and Bare Phrase Structure
  • 2.1.1 Merge
  • 2.1.2 Move
  • 2.2 The syntactic encoding of aspect and aktionsart
  • 3. A sketch of the principal ideas
  • 3.1 The basic structure of words.
  • 3.1.1 Word classes and inflectional morphology
  • 3.1.1.1 Criteria for word classes
  • 3.1.1.2 Earlier proposals
  • 3.1.1.3 Conclusion
  • 3.1.2 The derivation of words
  • 3.1.3 The relation between word classes and conceptual categories
  • 3.2 Weak nouns
  • 3.3 Verbs
  • 3.4 The minor open word classes
  • 3.4.1 Adjectives
  • 3.4.2 Prepositions
  • 3.4.3 Adverbs
  • 3.5 The lexicon(s)
  • 4. Compounds
  • 4.1 The basics of compounding
  • 4.1.1. Simple compounds
  • 4.1.2 Complex compounds
  • 4.1.3 Simple mediated compounds
  • 4.2 Compounds with verbal righthand segments.
  • 4.2.1 Verbal Compounds with ""object"" lefthand segments
  • 4.2.2 Compounds with ""subject"" lefthand segments
  • 4.2.3. Compounds with adverbial-like lefthand segments
  • 4.2.4 Concluding remarks
  • 5. Derivation by means of suffixation
  • 5.1 Basic issues
  • 5.1.1 Argument inheritance
  • a presentation of the phenomenon
  • 5.1.2 Aktionsarten
  • 5.2 The analysis
  • 5.2.1 Thing suffixes
  • 5.2.1.1 Nominalization with +ing / +ning
  • 5.2.1.2 Nominalization with + an
  • 5.2.1.3 Nominalization with +ande / +ende
  • 5.2.1.4 Nominalization with +het, +dom, +skap.
  • 5.2.1.5 Nominalization with a bare Event stem
  • 5.2.1.6 +are-derivations
  • 5.2.1.7 +ing / +ling derivations
  • 5.2.2 Property suffixes
  • 5.2.2.1 + bar derivations
  • 5.2.2.2 +ig / +lig derivations
  • 5.2.2.3 Past participles
  • 5.2.3 Event suffixes
  • 5.3 Derivations and semantic drift
  • 5.4 Complex derivations
  • 5.5 Derivational suffixes and inflectional suffixes
  • 5.6 Conclusion
  • 6. Derivation by means of prefixation
  • 6.1 Scope-taking prefixes
  • 6.2 Theta-role binding prefixes
  • 6.2.1 be-prefixation
  • 6.2.2 för-prefixation
  • 6.3 Conclusion
  • 7. Past participles.
  • 7.1 ""Verbal"" past participles
  • 7.1.1 Verb + free particle
  • 7.1.2 Past participles and free particles
  • 7.1.3 The past participle suffix
  • a derivational suffix
  • 7.2 ""Adjectival"" past participles
  • 8. Head of a word
  • 9. The universality of word formation principles
  • 10. Some notes on the lexicon
  • 11. Summary
  • References
  • Index.