Complex phrase structures within morphological words: Evidence from English and Indonesian

Sato, Yosuke

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2009.05.008

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“…Denominal predicates exhibiting bracketing paradoxes in Indonesian discussed in Sato (2010) seem to be the relevant examples. As Sato (2010) shows, denominal predicates derived with the prefix ber-(glossed BER below) allow stranded modifiers (example 23 from Sato 2010: 393). Sato (2010) analyzes (68b) through syntactic incorporation (complex head formation).…”

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“…As Sato (2010) shows, denominal predicates derived with the prefix ber-(glossed BER below) allow stranded modifiers (example 23 from Sato 2010: 393). Sato (2010) analyzes (68b) through syntactic incorporation (complex head formation). He gives two arguments in support of the analysis, and against conceivable alternatives.…”

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“…I av-buy bottle-milk but neg av-drink-it 'I bought a milk-bottle but I didn't drink it(=milk).' Though Sato (2010) proposes an incorporation/complex head formation analysis of denominal predicates, given that the prefixal predicate ber-and the head of the noun phrase complement are adjacent, an alternative analysis that does not countenance complex head formation is conceivable, where the prefix and the head noun remain separate entities and form a word only in the morphological/prosodic sense. Sato (2010) considers such an alternative, which he dubs the clitic analysis.…”

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“…Though Sato (2010) proposes an incorporation/complex head formation analysis of denominal predicates, given that the prefixal predicate ber-and the head of the noun phrase complement are adjacent, an alternative analysis that does not countenance complex head formation is conceivable, where the prefix and the head noun remain separate entities and form a word only in the morphological/prosodic sense. Sato (2010) considers such an alternative, which he dubs the clitic analysis. He concludes that since ber-has the properties of affixes and not clitics in the sense of Zwicky & Pullum (1983), the analysis that treats ber-as a clitic that does not form a complex head with the nominal base will not work.…”

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Lexical integrity and suspended affixation in two types of denominal predicates in Korean

Yoon

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Central to the debate on the demarcation of morphology and syntax is the position staked out by the Lexicalist Hypothesis, which holds that morphology and syntax are distinct systems which interface with each other in a particular way. Proponents of the Lexicalist Hypothesis point to a suite of diagnostics collectively known as lexical integrity tests (Bresnan and Mchombo 1995) as evidence pointing to the fundamental difference between morphology and syntax. The tests revolve around the apparent failure of principles of phrasal syntax at the threshold of words. If morphology and syntax constitute a unified rule system, as assumed in current approaches such as Distributed Morphology, such failure is not predicted. It is surprising therefore that lexical integrity has not played a significant role in arguments for Distributed Morphology (Lieber and Scalise 2007). The purpose of this paper is to introduce two types of denominal predicates in Korean, which are distinguished by the fact that lexical integrity is observed in one but not the other type. I explore how the behaviors of the two classes of denominal predicates can be modeled using the theoretical and empirical machinery of current DM, in particular, the distinction between roots and words. While this is a welcome result, it turns out that DM predicts that more languages should behave like Korean in allowing massive violations of lexical integrity. I provide an analysis of the differences between languages like Korean that allow selective access of word-internal structure by syntactic principles and languages like English where such access is prohibited by focusing on the mechanics of Vocabulary Insertion and complex head formation. The paper concludes with the implications of the analysis of the two types of predicates in Korean for both lexicalist and DM architectures of morphology and syntax interaction.

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Lexical integrity and suspended affixation in two types of denominal predicates in Korean

Yoon

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Kayne notes that nothing precludes the possibility of Merge selecting the same object twice, effectively giving a unary branching structure.3 Specifically, Kayne suggests that the NP in (2b) incorporates into the null v. He notes that verbs, at least in colloquial English, can be phrasal as in Don't Monday-morning-quarterback him so much (his footnote 21). A reviewer also points out that a number of other researchers have independently proposed that phrasal material can appear inside what is traditionally taken to be a word(Harley 2009, Sato 2010, Compton 2013. 4 CJL/RCL 65(1), 2020…”

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The Northern Iroquoian nominalizer and lexical categories

Barrie

Jung

2019

Can. J. Linguist.

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In Northern Iroquoian languages, a nominalizer (nlzr) is typically required to transform a verb into a noun, either for noun incorporation or to create a full DP. In some cases, the nominalizer is required only for noun incorporation and not for the formation of a DP. Interestingly, the converse is never found. That is, there are no lexical roots that require the nominalizer for the formation of a DP, but not for noun incorporation. With this asymmetry in mind, we examine the categorial properties of roots in Northern Iroquoian. We discuss three common theories of the categorization of roots: (i) the traditional theory, in which all roots are specified as nouns or verbs (or adjectives for languages that have this category), (ii) the Bare Root Hypothesis, in which all roots are acategorial, and (iii), the Roots as Nouns Hypothesis, in which all roots are nouns. We show that the Northern Iroquoian facts are not amenable to any of these theories. We propose instead that some roots in Northern Iroquoian are categorially specified (some as nouns, some as verbs), while others are truly bare.

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Phrases Inside Words

Härtl,

Schlechtweg

2023

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology

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The occurrence of phrases inside words poses a challenge for theorizing about the boundaries of the domain of word formation as well as the architecture of morphology in general. This entry focuses on phrasal compounds, such as over‐the‐fence gossip , as the most typical and productive set of data and examines the structural characteristics and configurational factors playing a role in phrasal compounding. In the first part of this entry, grammatical generalizations in the field of phrasal compounding will be addressed in some detail, laying out the various types of phrasal compounds identified in the literature and highlighting their properties from a typological vantage point. The second part, based on empirical reasoning, investigates configurational and relational aspects and links them to syntactic, semantic and pragmatic traits of phrasal compounds. Lastly, different models of the boundary between the word‐building component of language and syntax are outlined, with examples of how insights from the domain of phrasal compounding are implemented in different accounts. The entry closes with a short conclusion.

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Complex phrase structures within morphological words: Evidence from English and Indonesian

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Lexical integrity and suspended affixation in two types of denominal predicates in Korean

Lexical integrity and suspended affixation in two types of denominal predicates in Korean

The Northern Iroquoian nominalizer and lexical categories

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