Morphotactics Basque Auxiliaries and the Structure of Spellout /

• Main Authors: Arregi, Karlos (Author), Nevins, Andrew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 86
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Syntax.

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchical, featural, and linear restri...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: The Structure of Spellout . - 2 The Syntax of Cliticization and Agreement
•  3 The Morphophonology of Basque Finite Auxiliaries
• 4 Deletion Operations Targeting MorphologicalMarkedness
• 5 Linearity-Based Morphotactics
• 6 Rule Interaction in a Serial and Modular Architecture
• 7 Concluding Themes
• A Indicative Auxiliary Paradigms
• B Dialect Classification
• References
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• Language Index (including Basque varieties).