Do Words Exist?

« previous article | next article »

DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_article_851
dc.title	Do Words Exist?. The Role of Morphology in Today’s Grammar
dc.contributor.author	del Barrio de la Rosa Florencio
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2014/101/existen-las-palabras/
dc.description.abstract	The recent publication of two reference books about Spanish morphology (Aguirre 2013 and Fábregas 2013) shows the interest raised by this discipline in the field of Spanish linguistics. This note reviews some morphological notions, taking as starting point Aguirre’s work. We notice that she works with an undercovered ‘lexicalist’ notion of word. We find her treatment of productivity and, specially, of the connection between morphology and mind highly innovative and interesting. Only extralinguistic evidence might shed some light in the vexed question of the existence and nature of the basic unit of morphosyntax: the word.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 37 \| Issue 101 \| June 2014
dc.issued	2014-06-09
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2037-6588/6p
dc.peer-review	yes

Research Article
open access peer reviewed

Do Words Exist?

The Role of Morphology in Today’s Grammar

Florencio del Barrio de la Rosa Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

abstract

The recent publication of two reference books about Spanish morphology (Aguirre 2013 and Fábregas 2013) shows the interest raised by this discipline in the field of Spanish linguistics. This note reviews some morphological notions, taking as starting point Aguirre’s work. We notice that she works with an undercovered ‘lexicalist’ notion of word. We find her treatment of productivity and, specially, of the connection between morphology and mind highly innovative and interesting. Only extralinguistic evidence might shed some light in the vexed question of the existence and nature of the basic unit of morphosyntax: the word.

Published

June 9, 2014

Language

permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/2037-6588/6p

Copyright: © 2014 Florencio del Barrio de la Rosa. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

References to this chapter

How to cite