Grammar Architecture
Morphology and Its Interfaces
Participants
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Eulàlia Bonet
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Hagit Borer
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David Embick
David Embick
PhD Thesis: Voice and the interfaces of syntax. 1997. University of Pennsylvania
Research interests:
Syntactic Theory | Syntax/Morphology Interface | Morphological Theory (Distributed Morphology) | Syntax and Phonological Form | Argument Structure and “Lexical” Knowledge | Language and the Brain; MEG; language and AutismDepartment of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania.
Mediator
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Indaiá de Santana Bassani
Indaiá de Santana Bassani
Indaiá de Santana Bassani possui bacharelado em Letras (Português e Linguística – 2002-2006), licenciatura em Português (2006-2007), mestrado em Linguística (2007-2009) e doutorado na mesma área (2009-2013) pela Universidade de São Paulo, com estágio Sanduíche na Universidade da Pensilvânia (Jan-Dez/2012). Atua principalmente na área de morfologia e suas interfaces com a sintaxe (estrutura argumental), semântica verbal e fonologia. Interessa-se também por processamento de palavras e aquisição de morfologia. É professora adjunta no curso de Letras da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), atua na graduação e pós-graduação, e é membro do Laboratório de Linguagem e Cognição da Unifesp (LabLinC), do Grupo de Estudos em Morfologia Distribuída da USP (GREMD-USP) e do WordLab.
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Grammar Architecture
Morphology and Its Interfaces
With the participation of Eulàlia Bonet, Hagit Borer and David Embick, the panel discussion Grammar Architecture: morphology and the relevant interfaces, promoted by the Abralin Morphology Commission, focuses on word formation and its interaction to phonology and syntax. Eulàlia Bonet reviews and illustrates three cases in which a given phonological configuration has an impact on morpheme realization and non-realization. Hagit Borer investigates if – and how – acategorial Roots serve as input to Merge particularly focusing on the interaction between roots and Merge in the context of argument structure and complex words. David Embick discusses how Roots enter syntactic structures, and whether or not they have phrasal structure, proposing that certain objects, although built syntactically, are complex heads without internal phrasal structure.