Word Formation in Parallel Architecture: The Case for a Separate Component

by Pius Ten Hacken

This book aims to reconcile the generative considerations of Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture (PA) with the European structuralist approach to naming. It shows that there are good reasons to single out word formation as a separate component in PA. It demonstrates that it is a drawback not to distinguish word formation, and explains that the function of word formation rules is different from the function of the lexicon and rules of grammar. After...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030180085
• ISBN13: 9783030180089
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"