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

Book 4 of 4: Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Heinz J Giegerich

 
9780748624614: Lexical Structures: Compounding and the Modules of Grammar (Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0748624619 ISBN 13: 9780748624614
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Books in the series address the core sub-disciplines of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics - and their interfaces, with a particular focus on novel data from various sources and their challenges to linguistic theorizing.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 relevance to all researchers and students with an interest in English linguistics, and in morphological, syntactic or phonological theory.Heinz Giegerich is Professor 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 (1985), English phonology (1992) and Lexical strata in English (1999). At Edinburgh University Press he is the editor of the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language and a co-founder and co-editor (with Laurie Bauer and Greg Stump) of the journal Word Structure.Cover design: Stuart Dalziel

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0748624619
ISBN 13 
9780748624614
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
152