LINGUIST List 15.1396

Tue May 4 2004

Books: Morphology: Butt, Holloway King (Eds.)

Editor for this issue: Neil Salmond <neillinguistlist.org>

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1. pubs, Nominals: Inside and Out: Butt, Holloway King (Eds.)

 


Title: Nominals: Inside and Out
Series Title: Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism 

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher:	CSLI Publications
		http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ 

Editor: Miriam Butt, UMIST
Editor: Tracy Holloway King, Palo Alto Research Center 

Paperback: ISBN: 1575864746, Pages: 288, Comment: Contact University
	 of Chicago Press for price information.

			
Abstract:

The proper treatment of nominals and nominalization has been
fundamental to syntactic theory since the early 1970s. However, a
satisfactory treatment of nominals and nominalization continues to
prove elusive. Working within the theoretical framework of
Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), this book discusses distributional
properties of pronominals, the (inherited) predicational power of
deverbal nominals, and the vexed question of the syntactic category of
derived nominals. Recent developments in LFG also make it possible to
draw parallels between discourse clitics and case markers, and to
investigate the crosslinguistic distribution and interdependencies in
case marking systems in optimality-theoretic terms. Thus this book
presents a collection of papers that address "classic" issues with
respect to nominals and nominalizations while introducing novel
perspectives on their analysis.

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Lingfield(s):	Morphology
		
Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG) 


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