NDLI: Lexical Integrity, Checking, and the Mirror: A Checking Approach to Syntactic Word Formation

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Den Dikken, Marcel
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	Admitting syntactic formation of morphologically complex words is commonly deemed to be an infringement on the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis. But syntactic word formation, if understood in terms of the checking of features of subparts of words in designated syntactic positions, is readily reconciled with strong lexicalism. This paper will argue that a checking approach to syntactic word formation, in tandem with a novel interpretation of the Mirror Principle of Baker (1985), yields a straightforward resolution of the otherwise problematic inflectional morphology of the Athapaskan languages, as well as of ‘bracketing paradoxes’ of the unhappier and ungrammaticality type. The syntactically complex structure of unhappier and ungrammaticality that underlies the checking approach to syntactic word formation is supported on the basis of evidence from polarity item licensing, adverbial modification, and so-anaphora.
Starting Page	169
Ending Page	225
Page Count	57
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13834924
Journal	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728552
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Linguistics (general) Comparative Linguistics Germanic Languages Syntax Theoretical Languages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Linguistics and Language

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Lexical Integrity, Checking, and the Mirror: A Checking Approach to Syntactic Word Formation