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Atomic lexical entries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

David Lightfoot
David Lightfoot
Affiliation:
Linguistics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7515 [email protected]
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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
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 1029 - 1030
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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