{"title":"The Multi-layered PP Analysis and the Prefix a- in English","authors":"Akiko Nagano","doi":"10.4036/IIS.2014.217","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a generative-linguistic analysis of the prefix ain English morphology. Using Baker’s (2003) theory of syntactic categories and Svenonius’ (2006, 2010) multi-layered analysis of spatial PPs, I argue that locative on-phrases underwent the process of grammaticalization to yield a-words in which the prefix arealizes the category Pred. Denominal and de-adjectival a-words so formed triggered the emergence of a productive derivational pattern that produces stative predicates of the complex category Pred+A from inputs of any lexical category (N, A, and V). This analysis accounts for the non-canonical syntactic distribution of a-words as well as their morphological left-headedness.","PeriodicalId":91087,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary information sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"217-241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Interdisciplinary information sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4036/IIS.2014.217","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study presents a generative-linguistic analysis of the prefix ain English morphology. Using Baker’s (2003) theory of syntactic categories and Svenonius’ (2006, 2010) multi-layered analysis of spatial PPs, I argue that locative on-phrases underwent the process of grammaticalization to yield a-words in which the prefix arealizes the category Pred. Denominal and de-adjectival a-words so formed triggered the emergence of a productive derivational pattern that produces stative predicates of the complex category Pred+A from inputs of any lexical category (N, A, and V). This analysis accounts for the non-canonical syntactic distribution of a-words as well as their morphological left-headedness.
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