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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | (DLC) 2013404472 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hagit Borer |
ISBN: | 9780191643453 0191643459 9780191759017 0191759015 |
OCLC Number: | 868977117 |
Description: | 1 online resource (698 pages) : illustrations. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Words? What words? -- Part I, The syntax of derived nominals. Introduction ; Embedding syntactic events within nominals ; AS-nominals and AS-nominalizers ; Event structure in short nominals -- the passive paradigm -- Part II, Taking form. The skeleton ; Categorizing roots ; Taking root ; Structuring content ; Taking form by phase ; Semitic verbal derivatives : prolegomena ; Synthetic compounds ; Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Hagit Borer. |
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Combining provocative theoretical insights and detailed empirical investigation, this third volume is a highly significant contribution to Hagit Borer's grand project, developing an original and challenging conception of the nature of language that focuses on morphology but reaches far into fundamental considerations of syntax and semantics. A most impressive contribution, sure to be deservedly influential. * Noam Chomsky * Wide-ranging and intricately argued, this final volume in Borers monumental trilogy tackles the syntax of derived nominal in unprecedented depth and detail. This volume will be required reading for both syntacticians and morphologists for years to come * Rochelle Lieber * Read more...

