Book Details

Roots and Patterns

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-1-4020-3244-8

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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 morphologically transparent.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Syntax, Verb, grammatical features, language, morpho-syntax, morphology, nouns, semantic, semantics, syntactic, verb morphology