Mixed categories: The Morphosyntax of noun modification
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 31971
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108233903
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108415514
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial volume is the first in-depth study of how languages can use a noun, rather than an adjective, to modify another noun and of mixed-category noun-adjective hybrids (adjectives and adjective-like attributives derived from nouns which retain nominal properties). These rarely-discussed types of mixed category raise theoretical questions about lexemic identity, the inflection-derivation divide, and the relationship between the structure of words and their phrasal syntax. The book proposes a new formal framework that models cross-linguistic and cross-constructional variation, enabling readers to explicitly map word structure to syntactic structure, with implications for all current theoretical models of grammar.
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- Non-English
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