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    The Syntactic Domain of Content

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    Editors
    Rothman, J
    Grinstead, J
    Becker, M
    Schwartz, B
    Series
    Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 54
    Volume
    54
    Pagination
    205 - 247 (42)
    Publisher
    John Benjamins
    Publisher URL
    http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lald.54/main
    ISBN-17
    978 90 272 5316 3
    Location
    Philadelphia
    Journal
    Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams
    Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 54
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    Abstract
    A main motivation for relegating Word Formation to the lexicon is the fact that its output is often non-compositional. The present article, however, presents a serious challenge to the presumed contradiction between non-compositionality and syntactic combinatorial processes. The investigation of N–N Constructs in Hebrew shows that equally syntactically complex expressions nonetheless interact differently with non-compositionality. Crucially, it is the syntactic differences between these expressions that give rise to distinct Content properties, with non-compositionality correlating not with syntactic structure as such, but with the absence of functional structure. The emerging syntactic domain of ‘word’ Content in turn allows the language learner to make informed decisions on where to look for non-compositionality and to draw the appropriate structural conclusions from its presence
    Authors
    BORER, H
    URI
    http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/3319
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