Explaining Bobaljik’s Root Suppletion Generalization as an Instance of the Adjacency Condition (and Beyond)

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Explaining Bobaljik’s Root Suppletion Generalization as an Instance of the Adjacency Condition (and Beyond)
Original language description
Bobaljik (2012) observes on the basis of an impressive sample of languages that root suppletion is hardly ever conditioned by degree markers that do not form a word with the root. He calls this the Root Suppletion Generalization (RSG). If true, the generalization provides a possible argument for the lexicalist position: RSG can be seen as a consequence of the lexicalist architecture, where words are built pre-syntax, and therefore syntax cannot influence their shape (Williams 2007). Against this background, this paper discusses evidence (some of it presented already in Bobaljik’s work) that the RSG (when stated over words) is empirically (sometimes) too weak and (sometimes also) too strong. In view of these observations, I suggest a way in which all of these examples can be captured in ways that do not lend any support to lexicalism, simply because the word is not the relevant notion for blocking suppletion.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-10144S" target="_blank" >GA17-10144S: Exploring Contiguity</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2016
ISBN
9788024451725
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Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
193-207
Publisher name
Palacký University
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Jan 1, 2017
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CST - Celostátní akce
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