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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hagit Borer (Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 1.026kg ISBN: 9780199263943ISBN 10: 0199263949 Pages: 698 Publication Date: 03 October 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents to Volumes I and II 1: Introduction - Words? What Words? Part I: The Syntax of Derived Nominals 2: Introduction 3: Embedding Syntactic Events Within Nominals 4: AS-Nominals and AS-Nominalizers 5: Event Structure in Short Nominals, the Passive Paradigm Part II: Taking Form 6: The Skeleton 7: Categorizing Roots 8: Taking Root 9: Structuring Content 10: Taking Form by Phase 11: Semitic Verbal Derivatives - a Prolegomena 12: Synthetic Compounds 13: Conclusion References IndexReviewsCombining provocative theoretical insights and detailed empirical investigation, this third volume is a highly significant contribution to Hagit Borer's grand project, developing an original and challenging conception of the nature of language that focuses on morphology but reaches far into fundamental considerations of syntax and semantics. A most impressive contribution, sure to be deservedly influential. Noam Chomsky Author InformationHagit Borer is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to that, she held positions at the University of Southern California and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her main research focuses on the interaction between syntactic structure and word structure, an area that she has pursued from a syntactic perspective, from a morphological perspective, from a semantic perspective, and from the perspective of child language acquisition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |