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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a
state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects
of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical
complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues
that they raise. As such, this handbook is relevant both for those
interested in the facts of Spanish morphology and those interested
in general morphology that want to explore how the Spanish facts
illuminate our understanding of human language and current theories
of morphology. This volume is also unique in its extent and
coverage. Written by an international team of leading experts in
the field, it contains 42 chapters divided into four sections,
covering all synchronic and diachronic aspects of Spanish
morphology, including inflection; derivation; compounding and other
processes of word formation; the interaction of morphology with
other modules of grammar and the role of morphology in language
acquisition, psycholinguistics and language teaching.
This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of
location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological
generalization that classifies languages as either
'satellite-framed' or 'verb-framed'. In verb-framed languages, such
as those of the Romance family, the result state or location is
encoded in the verb. In satellite-framed languages, such as English
or Latin, the result state or location is encoded in a non-verbal
element. These languages can be further subdivided into weak
satellite-framed languages, in which the element expressing result
must form a word with the verb, and strong satellite-framed
languages, in which it is expressed by an independent element: an
adjective, a prepositional phrase or a particle. In this volume,
Victor Acedo-Matellan explores the similarities between Latin and
Slavic in their expression of events of transition: neither allows
the expression of complex adjectival resultative constructions and
both express the result state or location of a complex transition
through prefixes. They are therefore analysed as weak
satellite-framed languages, along with Ancient Greek and some
varieties of Mandarin Chinese, and stand in contrast to strong
satellite-framed languages such as English, the Germanic languages
in general, and Finno-Ugric. This variation is expressed in terms
of the morphological properties of the head that expresses
transition, which is argued to be affixal in weak but not in strong
satellite-framed languages. The author takes a neo-constructionist
approach to argument structure, which accounts for the verbal
elasticity shown by Latin, and a Distributed Morphology approach to
the syntax-morphology interface.
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