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The first in-depth study of the way languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another noun. It surveys a wide range of languages and provides a detailed, explicit theoretical analysis of a range of previously unexplored constructions. It will be of interest to scholars and students of syntax, morphology and semantics.
List of contents
1. Introduction: word categories and category mixing; 2. Modification constructions; 3. Categorial mixing in the nominal phrase; 4. Approaches to mixed categories; 5. Lexical representation and lexical relatedness; 6. Generalized paradigm function morphology; 7. Attributive modification in lexicalist morphosyntax; 8. Noun-adjective hybrids; 9. Conclusions and prospects.
About the author
Irina A. Nikolaeva author of multiple linguistic publications including Objects and Information Structure (with M. Dalrymple, Cambridge, 2011) and Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory: A Study in the Morphosyntax of Relative Clauses (with F. Ackerman, 2013).Andrew Spencer is the author of over 100 publications in linguistics, including Morphological Theory (1991), Clitics (with A. Luís, Cambridge, 2012) and Lexical Relatedness (2013). He is a co-editor of the journal Word Structure.
Summary
The first in-depth study of the way languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another noun. It surveys a wide range of languages and provides a detailed, explicit theoretical analysis of a range of previously unexplored constructions. It will be of interest to scholars and students of syntax, morphology and semantics.
