This paper attempts to articulate the essential nature of the notion 'root'in the morphosyntax.
Adopting a realizational (Late Insertion) view of the morphosyntactic model, the question of …

Three experiments explored the semantics of the mass-count distinction in young children
and adults. In Experiments 1 and 2, the quantity judgments of participants provided evidence …

Distributed Morphology (DM) is a framework in theoretical morphology, characterized by two
core tenets:(i) that the internal hierarchical structure of words is, in the first instance, syntactic …

Comparative judgments for mass and count nouns yield two generalizations. First, all words
that can be used in both mass and count syntax (eg rock, string, apple, water) always denote …

Proposing a novel theory of parts of speech, this book discusses categorization from a
methodological and theoretical point a view. It draws on discoveries and insights from a …

This dissertation investigates the semantic foundations of nominal countability. Standard
accounts are typically concerned with a binary distinction between countable words …

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.”(Proverbs 25, 11) Our
spontaneous speech is far from being perfect. Rather, it is interspersed with irregularities …

This paper tests whether lemma frequency impacts the duration of homographic noun–verb
homophones in spontaneous speech, eg cut (n)/cut (v). In earlier research on effects of …

Theories of lexical semantics and syntactic decomposition usually make a distinction
between the role of the'idiosyncratic'lexical component of words, the'constant'or'root', and …

The complex noun class system of Baïnounk Gubëeher, a hitherto undescribed minority
language whose speakers are concentrated in Djibonker, Casamance/Senegal, combines a …