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This paper discusses the nature and scope of the relation between morphology and (phrasal) syntax. I propose two dimensions along which the “space” of lexical argument structure might be partitioned, and then I illustrate how these dimensions can be exploited to address puzzles presented by various morphosyntactic phenomena in English. The direction of the argument will be toward support for a conception of the relation between morphology and syntax in which the rules of one differ in interesting ways from the rules of the other—a “lexicalist” conception—and away from a “syntactic” conception of that relation, in which the rules of morphology are the rules of syntax.
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Jones, C. (1999). Some Syntactic Consequences of Argument Structure Dimensions. In: Saint-Dizier, P. (eds) Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2746-4_9
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