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One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature
of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the
interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation
between structure and meaning, and analyses how it affects the internal
properties of words and corresponding syntactic manifestations. Adapting
notions from the Evo-Devo project in biology (the idea of ‘co-linearity’
between structural units and behavioural manifestations), Juan Uriagereka
addresses a major puzzle: how words can be both decomposable so as to be
acquired by children, and atomic, so that they do not manifest themselves as
modular to adults.
j u a n u r i a g e r e k a is Professor in the Linguistics Department at the
University of Maryland at College Park, USA. His previous publications
include A Course in Minimalist Syntax (2005, with H. Lasnik) and Derivations
(2002).
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In this series
72 LUIGI BURZIO: Principles of English stress
73 JOHN A. HAWKINS: A performance theory of order and constituency
74 A L I C E C . H A R R I S and L Y L E C A M P B E L L : Historical syntax in cross-linguistic
perspective
75 L I L I A N E H A E G E M A N : The syntax of negation
76 P A U L G O R R E L : Syntax and parsing
77 G U G L I E L M O C I N Q U E : Italian syntax and universal grammar
78 H E N R Y S M I T H : Restrictiveness in case theory
79 D . R O B E R T L A D D : Intonational morphology
80 A N D R E A M O R O : The raising of predicates: predicative noun phrases and the theory
of clause structure
81 R O G E R L A S S : Historical linguistics and language change
82 J O H N M . A N D E R S O N : A notional theory of syntactic categories
83 B E R N D H E I N E : Possession: cognitive sources, forces and grammaticalization
84 N O M T E R T E S C H I K - S H I R : The dynamics of focus structure
85 J O H N C O L E M A N : Phonological representations: their names, forms and powers
86 C H R I S T I N A Y . B E T H I N : Slavic prosody: language change and phonological theory
87 B A R B A R A D A N C Y G I E R : Conditionals and prediction
88 C L A I R E L E F E B V R E : Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar: the case of
Haitian Creole
89 H E I N Z G I E G E R I C H : Lexical strata in English
90 K E R E N R I C E : Morpheme order and semantic scope
91 A P R I L M C M A H O N : Lexical phonology and the history of English
92 M A T T H E W Y . C H E N : Tone sandhi: patterns across Chinese dialects
93 G R E G O R Y T . S T U M P : Inflectional morphology: a theory of paradigm structure
94 J O A N B Y B E E : Phonology and language use
95 L A U R I E B A U E R : Morphological productivity
96 T H O M A S E R N S T : The syntax of adjuncts
97 E L I Z A B E T H C L O S S T R A U G O T T and R I C H A R D B . D A S H E R : Regularity in semantic
change
98 M A Y A H I C K M A N N : Children’s discourse: person, space and time across languages
99 D I A N E B L A K E M O R E : Relevance and linguistic meaning: the semantics and
pragmatics of discourse markers
100 I A N R O B E R T S and A N N A R O U S S O U : Syntactic change: a minimalist approach to
grammaticalization
101 D O N K A M I N K O V A : Alliteration and sound change in early English
102 M A R K C . B A K E R : Lexical categories: verbs, nouns and adjectives
103 C A R L O T A S . S M I T H : Modes of discourse: the local structure of texts
104 R O C H E L L E L I E B E R : Morphology and lexical semantics
105 H O L G E R D I E S S E L : The acquisition of complex sentences
106 S H A R O N I N K E L A S and C H E R Y L Z O L L : Reduplication: doubling in morphology
107 S U S A N E D W A R D S : Fluent aphasia
108 B A R B A R A D A N C Y G I E R and E V E S W E E T S E R : Mental spaces in grammar:
conditional constructions
109 H E W B A E R M A N , D U N S T A N B R O W N and G R E V I L L E G . C O R B E T T : The syntax–
morphology interface: a study of syncretism
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Series list continued from page ii.
110 MARCUS TOMALIN: Linguistics and the formal sciences: the origins of generative
grammar
111 SAUMUEL D. EPSTEIN and T . D A N I E L S E E L Y : Derivations in minimalism
112 PAUL DE LACY: Markedness: reduction and preservation in phonology
113 Y E H U D A N . F A L K : Subjects and their properties
114 P . H . M A T T H E W S : Syntactic relations: a critical survey
115 M A R K C . B A K E R : The syntax of agreement and concord
116 G I L L I A N C A T R I O N A R A M C H A N D : Verb meaning and the lexicon: a first phase syntax
117 P I E T E R M U Y S K E N : Functional categories
118 J U A N U R I A G E R E K A : Syntactic anchors: on semantic structuring
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CAMBRI DGE S TUDI ES IN LI NGUISTICS
General editors: P. A U S T I N , J . B R E S N A N , B . C O M R I E , S . C R A I N ,
W. D R E S S L E R , C . J . E W E N , R . L A S S , D . L I G H T F O O T , K . R I C E ,
I . R O B E RT S , S . R O M A I N E , N . V. S M I T H
Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring

SYNTACTIC ANCHORS
ON SEMANTIC STRUCTURING
JUAN URIAGEREKA
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‘Dad, why are other people’s words okay, but when I make them up
they sound funny?’
(Isabel Uriagereka Herburger, after discussing with her sister Sofia
the meaning of their Spanish neologism desalrevesar, lit.
‘unturnaround’.)
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