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Atomic lexical entries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

David Lightfoot
Affiliation:
Linguistics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7515 dlight@deans.umd.edu

Abstract

Not only do grammars have the dual structure that Clahsen discusses but the lexicon contains atomic, unanalyzed items, which would be still more mysterious for single-mechanism models. Forms of be in modern English are listed atomically and this is not a simple function of their morphological richness or of the fact that they move.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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