Beschreibung:
This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically.
Roots: Where Syntax, Morphology, and the Lexicon Meet.- The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory?.- The Contents of the Root: Multiple Contextualized Meaning in Hebrew.- The Morphological Consequences of MCM: An Intermediate Summary.- Roots Across Patterns in Hebrew.- A Theory of Hebrew Verbal Morpho-Syntax.- Roots in Word-Formation: The Root Hypothesis Revisited.