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Maya Arad - Roots and Patterns - 9781402032431 - V9781402032431
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Roots and Patterns

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Description for Roots and Patterns Hardback. Presents a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, this book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots are the primitives of word formation. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.

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.

The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are ... Read more

While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402032431
SKU
V9781402032431
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