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The determination of the component of Universal §Grammar where word formation takes place has been a §major area of controversy in the literature. The §main goal of this book is to §uncover the component of Universal Grammar where a §morphologically-complex de-adjectival verb is §formed. It shows that although the internal §structure of morphologically-complex de-adjectival §causatives is empirically and theoretically §predicted to be opaque to phrase-level operations §(Borer 1991; Li 2005), syntactic processes and §descriptions are not oblivious to the internal §structure of that derived structure in Oromo and §Amharic. Building on a well-motivated assumption §that there is no well-formed syntactic structure §into which a synthetic de-adjectival verb might §project (Li 2005), we advance an argument to the §effect that both members of those derived de-§adjectival causatives are lexically independent. §Inspired by work done in Distributed Morphology §(Halle & Marantz 1993), we maintain that a merger of §the members of de-adjectival causatives takes place §post-syntactically in an intermediate level of §representation called morphological structure (MS).

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• Full title: Adjective Incorporation and the Morphosyntactic Interface A Postsyntactic Approach to Word Formation
• Author: Abdulrahman Almansour
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9783639104905
• ISBN: 3639104900
• ID: 06819462
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. January 2009

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