Syntax of Words

Name: Syntax of Words
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ISBN: 9780262690799

ISBN-10: 0262690799

ISBN-13: 9780262690799

Edition: 1982

Authors: Elisabeth O. Selkirk

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This monograph examines complex words -- compounds and those involving derivational and inflectional affixation -- from a syntactic standpoint that encompasses both the structure of words and the system of rules for generating that structure. The author contends that the syntax of words and the more familiar syntax involving relations among words must be defined by two discrete sets of principles in the grammar, but nevertheless that word structure has the same general formal properties as the larger syntactic structure and is generated by the same sort of rule system. This investigation of word structure and rule systems is based for the most part on the word syntax of English and…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/25/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Elisabeth O. Selkirk is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.



Series Foreword


Preface



A General Theory of Word Structure



Compounding



Affixation


Notes


References