Speaker: Luis Lopez (UIC)
Title: Remarks on the syntactification of morphology
Time: 15:15-17:00
Venue: Wijkplaats 4/001
Abstract
Taking a Distributed Morphology model as a starting point, the talk will present the hypothesis that parallel computations drive some word-formation processes. It will be argued that complex event structure is independent of the presence of a verbal phrase. Nominalizations in Spanish, which often exhibit verbal thematic vowels between the root and the nominalizing affix, turn out to be an ideal playground to test theoretical hypotheses. The larger aim of this project is to explore in depth the consequences of the hypothesis that word formation and phrasal syntax constitute one single module (as in Marantz 1997 i.m.a.).