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3. Morphology and Syntax: Challenges to Lexicalism

Feb. 7. Clitics vs. affixes, compounds vs. phrases. Incorporation and complex predicates. Different versions of lexicalism. The mirror principle.

Read Ch. 8 of Haspelmath.

Feb. 9. Distributed Morphology.

Read Marantz, ``No Escape from Syntax'', Embick & Noyer, ``Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface''.

Problem 5 due.

Feb. 14. Morphology and argument structure. Valency-changing operations. Synthetic compounds, nominalization and inheritance. Transpositional derivation. Incorporation, polysynthesis.

Read Ch. 11 of Haspelmath.



Paul Kiparsky 2005-05-28