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Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 90
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This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure
alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure.
Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and
Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is
traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the
interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to
semantics. The resulting system forms sound-meaning pairs by
generating hierarchical structures that can be translated into
morphological representations, on the one hand, and semantic
representations, on the other. The syntactic primitives, however,
underdetermine both morphophonology and semantics. Without
appealing to special stipulations, the theory derives constraints
on the external argument of causative-alternation verbs,
interpretive restrictions on nominative objects, and the optionally
agentive interpretation of verbs denoting self-directed motion.
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