Chapter 1
Introduction
Derivational suffixes without category change
Article outline
- 1.1Derivational suffixes that do not change the grammatical category of the base
- 1.1.1Gender
- 1.1.2Appreciative morphology
- 1.1.3The mereological system
- 1.1.4The scale system
- 1.1.5Other cases
- 1.1.6Interfixes
- 1.2Nanosyntax
- 1.2.1The syntactic structure
- 1.2.1.1Moderated cartography
- 1.2.1.2Primitives
- 1.2.2The spell out procedure
- 1.2.2.1The Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle
- 1.2.2.2Phrasal Spell Out
- 1.2.2.3The Superset Principle
- 1.2.2.4Pointers
- 1.3Meaning and form
- 1.3.1Structural and conceptual meaning
- 1.3.2Allosemy
- 1.3.3Idioms
- 1.3.4Multiple spell out and complex specifiers
- 1.4Assumptions about lexical categories
- 1.4.1Nouns
- 1.4.2Prepositions
- 1.4.3Adjectives
- 1.4.4Verbs
- 1.5Roadmap