Classic problems at the syntax-morphology interface: Whose are they?
- There are fascinating problems at the syntax-morphology interface which tend to be missed. I offer a brief explanation of why that may be happening, then give a Canonical Typology perspective, which brings these problems to the fore. I give examples showing that the phenomena could in principle be treated either by syntactic rules (but these would be complex) or within morphology (but this would involve redundancy). Thus 'non-autonomous' case values, those which have no unique form but are realized by patterns of syncretism, could be handled by a rule of syntax (one with access to other features, such as number) or by morphology (with resulting systematic syncretisms). I concentrate on one of the most striking sets of data, the issue of prepositional government in Latvian, and outline a solution within Network Morphology using structured case values.
| Author: | Greville G. CorbettORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-713535 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2010.14 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/10/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (17 : 2010 : Paris) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/06 |
| GND Keyword: | Lettisch; Morphosyntax; Kasus |
| Volume: | 17.2010 |
| Page Number: | 14 |
| First Page: | 255 |
| Last Page: | 268 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
