Taking form

Taking form

by Borer, Hagit

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Hagit Borer develops a new model of word formation, arguing that on the one hand the basic building blocks of language are rigid semantic and syntactic functions, while on the other hand they are roots, which in themselves are but packets of phonological information, and are devoid of both meaning and grammatical properties of any kind.

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  • Full title :Taking form / Hagit Borer.

Summary

Hagit Borer develops a new model of word formation, arguing that on the one hand the basic building blocks of language are rigid semantic and syntactic functions, while on the other hand they are roots, which in themselves are but packets of phonological information, and are devoid of both meaning and grammatical properties of any kind.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (698 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780191643453, 0191643459, 9780191759017, 0191759015
  • oclc:ocn868977117
  • LC Classification:LB1575.8
  • Dewey Decimal:415

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Words? What words? -- Part I, The syntax of derived nominals. Introduction ; Embedding syntactic events within nominals ; AS-nominals and AS-nominalizers ; Event structure in short nominals -- the passive paradigm -- Part II, Taking form. The skeleton ; Categorizing roots ; Taking root ; Structuring content ; Taking form by phase ; Semitic verbal derivatives : prolegomena ; Synthetic compounds ; Conclusion.

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Arts du langage Language arts linguistics Linguistique

Writers

Borer, Hagit

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