Minimal words in a minimal syntax : word formation in Swedish / Gunlög Josefsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Josefsson, Gunlög.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; 19.

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish language--Word formation.

Swedish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998.

Summary:

In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic approach to word structure of the Principles and Parameters framework is replaced by a rule free approach incorporating only Merge and Move as structure building devices. The author argues that stems have no word class features, which are provided inflectional affixes (including theme vowels etc.)

Contents:

CONTENTS; 1. Introduction; 2. Background theories; 3. A sketch of the principal ideas; 4. Compounds; 5. Derivation by means of suffixation; 6. Derivation by means of prefixation; 7. Past participles; 8. Head of a word; 9. The universality of word formation principles; 10. Some notes on the lexicon; 11. Summary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

745866920