Langbeschreibung
This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning. In particular, chapters examine the interaction of roots with syntactic structure, and the role of their semantic and morpho-phonological properties in that interaction. Issues addressed in the book include the semantics and phonology of roots in isolation and in context; the categorial specification of roots; and the role of phases in word formation.Internationally recognized scholars approach these topics from a variety of theoretical backgrounds, drawing on data from languages including German, Hebrew, and Modern Greek. The book will be of interest to linguistics students and researchers of all theoretical persuasions from graduate level upwards.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer, and Florian Schafer: Introduction; 2 Victor Acedo-Matellan and Jaume Mateu: From syntax to roots: A syntactic approach to root interpretation; 3 Paolo Acquaviva: The roots of nominality, the nominality of roots; 4 Artemis Alexiadou: Roots in transitivity alternations: Afto/auto-reflexives; 5 Elena Anagnostopoulou and Yota Samioti: Domains within words and their meanings: A case study; 6 Hagit Borer: The category of roots; 7 Marijke De Belder, Noam Faust, and Nicola Lampitelli: On a low and high diminutive: Evidence from Italian and Hebrew; 8 Edit Doron: The interaction of adjectival passive and Voice; 9 Angel J. Gallego: Roots and phases; 10 Lisa Levinson: The ontology of roots and verbs; 11 Jean Lowenstamm: Derivational affixes as roots, no exponence: Phasal spellout meets English stress shift; 12 Malka Rappaport Hovav: Building scalar changes; 13 Antje Rossdeutscher: When roots license and when they respect semantico-syntactic structure in verbs