Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax: 180 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

9789027236869: Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax: 180 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027236860 ISBN 13: 9789027236869

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1999

The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Universit� degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lexical-functional grammar to grammaticalization theory, taking into account both synchronic variation and diachronic change.
The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.

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This collection of articles grew out of papers presented at the European Colloquium on the Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax. The text is focused on the interface between morphology and syntax, though the morpho-syntax-pragmatics and the morpho-syntax-semantics interfaces are also considered. The text suggests possible ways in which morphology and syntax interact with each other while belonging to separate competence fields, but also focuses on the inevitable links and interactions with the higher components of grammar. Thematically, the volume is concerned with the topics and the approaches that are mostly involved in this conflict, both from the morphological and syntactic point of view. It is also concerned with a variety of typologically different languages from different areas, from European to Afro-Asiatic languages, or from American to Austronesian ones.

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