LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Preposition And Postposition, Suppletion, Swordfish
30 May 2016
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We spell word boundaries, but we don"t perceive them. Inconsistencies with compounds -, space, whole word. List of properties that differentiates words from phrases. Compounds: a lot of properties that make them look like they are different from phrases. You can"t have a compound with two nouns, but other combinations don"t always tell you whether it"s a compound. Compounds are more likely to be idiomatic than phrases. The dependant in a compound can never be referential. Limited to generic meanings of words [dependant member of syntax are never generic. If you see a referential dependant, it is] Compounds are cohesive perceives as one unit. Morphology coherence (with compounds): governor generals, court marshalls (plural markers can only go on word boundaries**) You can yank out of an noun phrase, but not out of a compound, separability. Expandability: can"t put syntactic structure inside of a compound. Ellipsis in syntax, but not in compounds. I have big and small fish in my tank.
