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Lexical Integrity As A Formal Universal: A Constructionist View

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Universals of Language Today

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This paper deals with an important formal universal with respect to the interface of morphology and syntax, the Lexical Integrity Principle. This principle encompasses both non-interruptability and non-accessibility of word-internal structure. Non-interruptability is a defining property of canonical wordhood, and this part of Lexical Integrity is therefore almost never violated. Non-accessibility of word-internal structure should be rejected on empirical grounds, In a constructionist view of morphology, the possibility of syntax and semantics having access to word-internal structure is to be expected.

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Booij, G. (2009). Lexical Integrity As A Formal Universal: A Constructionist View. In: Scalise, S., Magni, E., Bisetto, A. (eds) Universals of Language Today. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8825-4_5

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