Semi-lexical Categories - What's Between Lexical and Functional Heads

The distinction between functional categories and lexical categories is at the heart of present-day grammatical theory, in theories on language acquisition, code-switching and aphasia. At the same time, it has become clear, however, that there are many lexical items for which it is less easy to decide whether they side with the lexical categories or the functional ones. This book deals with the grammatical behavior of such in- between-categories, which are referred to here as "semi-lexical categories".

About the author

Norbert Corver and Henk van Riemsdijk are Professors at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

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"In conclusion, I believe Semi-lexical categories to significantly advance our understanding of how the feature content of lexical items triggers or interacts with their syntactic behaviour. Moreover, the authors contributing to the volume carry this task out in an essentially minimalist fashion, as they clearly and precisely identify semi-lexical categories and their properties, and then proceed to attempt to reduce their nature and behaviour to that of better-studied entities and phenomena."
Phoevos Panagiotidis in: Linguistics 41/2005

Product details

• Assisted by: Norber Corver (Editor), Norbert Corver (Editor), Henk van Riemsdijk (Editor), van Riemsdijk (Editor), van Riemsdijk (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9783110166859
• ISBN: 978-3-11-016685-9
• No. of pages: 554
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 41 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 922 g
• Illustrations: Num. figs.
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics