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Roots and Patterns


Roots and Patterns

Hebrew Morpho-syntax
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Band 63

von: Maya Arad

96,29 €

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 27.11.2005
ISBN/EAN: 9781402032448
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 286

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<P>This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically.</P>
<P>The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. </P>
<P>While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists.</P>
Roots: Where Syntax, Morphology, and the Lexicon Meet.- The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory?.- The Contents of the Root: Multiple Contextualized Meaning in Hebrew.- The Morphological Consequences of MCM: An Intermediate Summary.- Roots Across Patterns in Hebrew.- A Theory of Hebrew Verbal Morpho-Syntax.- Roots in Word-Formation: The Root Hypothesis Revisited.
<P>This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically.</P>
<P>The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. </P>
<P>While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists.</P>
<P>The book is of wide interest to students of many branches of linguistics, including morphology, syntax and lexical semantics, as well as of to students Semitic languages. </P>

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