OLD ENGLISH ADJECTIVAL AFFIXATION: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Using Old Words In News Ways: The Effect Of Argument Structure, Form Class And Affixation

Williams (1981) and others (e.g., Kiparsky 1983; Pinker & Prince 1987) have noted that new verbs which are semantically extended from nouns take the regular past-tense (as in the baseball sense of fly ), while verbs extended from an irregular verb inherit the irregular past-tense marker, as happens with compounding and affixation (e.g. oversleep ). This type of data has motivated the view that ...

Levels of Affixation in the Acquisition of English Morphology

The theory of level-ordering proposes that word formation processes are assigned to one of three levels within the lexicon. Level 1 processes are applied before Level 2, which are applied before Level 3. Such ordering constraints predict differences in acceptability between pairs such as teeth marks versus *claws marks, and Darwinianism versus *Darwinismian. An acquisition model is examined in ...

Adjectival Passives and Adjectival Decausatives in Hebrew

Syntactic Affixation and Performance Structures

Functional elements (determiners, complementizers, modals, degree words) are in many ways the syntactic analogues of affixes in morphology. Typically, functional elements are bound elements. Phonologically, they are clitics: syntactically, they are unable to appear without an associated thematic element (noun, verb, adjective). I would like to extend the analogy by showing that functional eleme...

compactifications and function spaces on weighted semigruops

chapter one is devoted to a moderate discussion on preliminaries, according to our requirements. chapter two which is based on our work in (24) is devoted introducting weighted semigroups (s, w), and studying some famous function spaces on them, especially the relations between go (s, w) and other function speces are invesigated. in fact this chapter is a complement to (32). one of the main fea...