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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456727403321

Autore

Josefsson GunloĢˆg

Titolo

Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax [[electronic resource] ] : Word formation in Swedish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Disciplina

439.75

Soggetti

Swedish language -- Congresses

Swedish language -- Word formation

Swedish language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.)