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Morphotactics

Basque Auxiliaries and the Structure of Spellout

  • Includes comprehensive treatment of markedness and second-position phenomena within Distributed Morphology
  • Discusses synthesis of diverse existing cross-linguistic morphology research into a coherent and predictive theory
  • Contains monograph-length treatment of an entire inflectional system?

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 86)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction: The Structure of Spellout

    • Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins
    Pages 1-47
  3. The Syntax of Cliticization and Agreement

    • Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins
    Pages 49-109
  4. The Morphophonology of Basque Finite Auxiliaries

    • Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins
    Pages 111-199
  5. Deletion Operations Targeting Morphological Markedness

    • Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins
    Pages 201-235
  6. Linearity-Based Morphotactics

    • Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins
    Pages 237-340
  7. Rule Interaction in a Serial and Modular Architecture

    • Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins
    Pages 341-360
  8. Concluding Themes

    • Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins
    Pages 361-374
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 375-418

About this book

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchical, featural, and linear restrictions within the auxiliary systems of several varieties of Basque.

The postsyntactic component is modeled as a highly articulated system that accounts for what is shared and what exhibits variation across Basque dialects. The emphasis is on a principled ordering of postsyntactic operations based on their intrinsic properties, and on the relationship between representations in the Spellout component of grammar with other grammatical modules. The analyses in the book treat related phenomena in other languages and thereby have much to offer for a general morphology readership, as well as those interested in the syntax-morphology interface, the theory of Distributed Morphology, and Basque.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Karlos Arregi

  • Dept. Linguistics, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Andrew Nevins

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Morphotactics

  • Book Subtitle: Basque Auxiliaries and the Structure of Spellout

  • Authors: Karlos Arregi, Andrew Nevins

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3889-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3888-1Published: 24 May 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8182-4Published: 11 June 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-3889-8Published: 23 May 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 420

  • Topics: Syntax

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Softcover Book USD 249.00
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Hardcover Book USD 249.00
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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