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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 63)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb.
While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Roots and Patterns
Book Subtitle: Hebrew Morpho-syntax
Authors: Maya Arad
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3244-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3243-1Published: 15 July 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3245-5Published: 15 July 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3244-8Published: 27 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 286
Topics: Grammar, Theoretical Linguistics, Semitic Languages, Syntax, Semantics