Lexical Structures: Compounding and the Modules of Grammar

ISBN-13: 9780748624614 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 152 str.

Heinz Giegerich

Opis

Bringing together the subjects of English compounding and Chomsky's theory of Lexicalism, Heinz Giegerich demonstrates in this new study 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.

Spis treści

Chapter One: The grammar of adjectival attribution; 1.1: Introduction; 1.2: Lexicalism and the syntax-lexicon continuum of attribution; 1.2.1: Intersective vs. subsective attribution; 1.2.2: Restrictive vs. non-restrictive attribution;1.2.3: Ascriptive vs. associative attribution; 1.3: The stress patterns of attribution; 1.4: Summary: the nature of adjectival attribution; Chapter Two: Associative attribution; 2.1: Introduction: more on ascription and association; 2.2: The morphology and lexical semantics of associative adjectives; 2.3: The syntax of associative adjectives; 2.4: Candidature for lexical status; 2.5: Associative adjectives and the pro-form one; 2.6: The stress patterns of associative attribution; Chapter Three: A mythology of fore-stress, end-stress and tree geometry; 3.1: Introduction; 3.2: The first myth: ‘All phrases have end-stress’; 3.3: End-stressed NNs – compounds or phrases?; 3.3.1: Background; 3.3.2: Fore-stress and end-stress in NNs; 3.3.3: End-stressed NNs and the limits of formal prediction; 3.3.4: Tendencies for end-stress: attribution, transparency, ascription; 3.3.5: Compound stress in Scottish English; 3.4: The stress patterns of NNNs; 3.4.1: The myth and the facts; 3.4.2: Analysis 1: all end-stressed NNs are phrases; 3.4.3: Analyses 2 and 3: all NNs are or may be compounds; 3.5: Conclusion; Chapter Four: Interlude: the porous nature of lexical stratification; 4.1: Introduction; 4.2: The nature of lexical strata; 4.2.1: Productivity and semantic transparency; 4.2.2: Phonological transparency; 4.2.3: Embedding and affix ordering; 4.2.4: An illustrative example: noun-forming –er; 4.3: Brackets and their erasure; 4.4: Overlapping strata: unexpected stress preservation and its unexpected failure; 4.5: More on stratal overlap; Chapter Five: Lexical integrity?; 5.1: On the nature of the lexicon-syntax divide; 5.2: The purported integrity of the lexicon; 5.2.1: Lexical integrity and bracket erasure; 5.2.2: Syntactic operations as diagnostics of phrasal status; 5.2.2.1: Co-ordination reduction; 5.2.2.2: Pro-one; 5.2.2.3: Phrases inside compounds; 5.2.3: Listed semantics, regular form; 5.2.4: Unlisted semantics: anaphoric compounding; 5.3: Compounds in no-man’s land; 5.3.1: Lexical non-integrity; 5.3.2: Overlapping modules