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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781785103321

Autore

Josefsson Gunlög

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 1998

©1998

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 199 pages)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Disciplina

439.75

Soggetti

Swedish language - Word formation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.)