Roots and Patterns Hebrew Morpho-syntax /

• Main Author: Arad, Maya (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 63
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Grammar.; Semantics.; Semitic languages.; Syntax.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Semitic Languages.

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 centr...

Table of Contents:

• 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.