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    • On the division of labor between roots and functional structure 

      Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017-05)
      This chapter argues that there is a typology of languages according to how much meaning a root encodes independently of its syntactic categorization. This typology is illustrated by an in-depth discussion of three languages: English, Greek, and Hebrew. Hebrew is argued to represent one end of the scale where the root encodes a minimal and highly abstract meaning. English represents the other end ...

    • The structural configurations of root categorization 

      Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017-09-25)
      This paper discusses the syntax of roots by way of looking at four different views discussed in the literature: (i) roots merged as complements, (ii) roots merged as modifiers, (iii) roots merged either as complements or as modifiers, and (iv) roots merged in a unique way. A lot of time is devoted to (i) and to demonstrate empirical challenges from both the nominal and the verbal domain. With the ...

    • V3 in Germanic: A comparison of urban vernaculars and heritage languages 

      Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2018)
      It is well known that varieties of Germanic do not display a strict V2 system whereby the finite verb is in the second position in main clauses. In this paper, we compare the Germanic heritage language American Norwegian with the Germanic urban vernacular Kiezdeutsch. We focus on declarative V3 structures and compare V3 properties in Kiezdeutsch with data from American Norwegian across several ...