Affixial verbs in syntax: A reply to Grimshaw and Mester
✍ Scribed by Anthony C. Woodbury; Jerrold M. Sadock
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 800 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-806X
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✦ Synopsis
Because of the extraordinary degree of polysynthesis they display, Eskimo languages offer a critica ! proving-ground for the Lexicalist Hypothesis proposed by and elaborated in different versions by others (in a morphological context see e.g., Aronoff, 1976; Lapointe, 1980; Bresnan (ed.), 1982;. The welter of completely productive derivational suffixes in these languages -over 400 in most-have often been treated directly in syntax as affixal adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. Such treatment is suggested not only by their often concrete lexical meanings ('ugly', 'heartily', 'eat', 'say that', 'order to'), but by important syntactic similarities they bear to their word-level equivalents in better-known languages including, in the case of verblike suffixes, the abilitY to take phrasal NP and sentential complements