Roots and Patterns Hebrew Morpho-syntax
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,
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 63 V Managing Editors Marcel den Dikken, City University of New York Liliane Haegeman, University of Lille Joan Maling, Brandeis University Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice Carol Georgopoulos, University of Utah Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hilda Koopman, University of California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
ROOTS AND PATTERNS Hebrew Morpho-syntax
by
MAYA ARAD Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
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CONTENTS A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii C HAPTER 1. R OOTS : W HERE S YNTAX , M ORPHOLOGY , AND THE L EXICON M EET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1.1. W HY R OOTS ? T HE D ECOMPOSITION D EBATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2. D ISTRIBUTED M ORPHOLOGY AND THE S YNTAX M ORPHOLOGY I NTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3. H EBREW M ORPHOLOGY : R OOTS AND P ATTERNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4. T HE A RGUMENT FOR THE R OOT : S TRUCTURE AND S COPE OF THE B OOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 C HAPTER 2. T HE N OUN V ERB A SYMMETRY IN H EBREW: W HEN A RE P ATTERNS O BLIGATORY ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4.
I NTRODUCTION : R OOTS AND F EATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H EBREW R OOTS AND P ATTERNS : T HE V ERBAL S YSTEM . . . . . . T HE N OUN V ERB A SYMMETRY IN H EBREW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A CCOUNTING FOR THE A SYMMETRY : T HE O BLIGATORINESS OF I NFLECTION ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5. A CCOUNTING FOR THE A SYMMETRY : T HE R EALIZATION OF G RAMMATICAL F EATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6. T HE S TUFF R OOTS ARE M ADE OF : C ONSTRAINTS
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