Morphology-Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical Features / / Peter W. Smith.
Hybrid nouns have a morphological shape that doesn’t match their semantic interpretation. Such nouns pose clear and interesting questions for the nature of grammatical features. For instance, how does a single feature contribute distinct information values to different components of the grammar? Fur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interface Explorations [IE] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIII, 268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Part I: A formal model of feature mismatches
- 1 Concerning hybrids
- 2 Theoretical preliminaries: A feature model for hybrid nouns?
- Part II: Hybrid nouns and the syntax of agreement
- 3 Agreement in the Minimalist Programme
- 4 Agreement mismatches and the Agreement Hierarchy
- 5 Semantic agreement
- Part III: Mass Nouns
- 6 The mass–count distinction
- 7 Furniture-nouns in English
- 8 Non-countable count nouns in Telugu
- 9 Concluding remarks
- Bibliography
- Index