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Nanosyntax and the Lexicalization Algorithm
Author(s): Pavel Caha (Author), Karen De Clercq (Author), Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: December 11, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 528 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198947135
- ISBN-13: 9780198947134
Book Description
The case studies in Part I use the lexicalization algorithm to probe for the underlying ingredients of the functional sequence, while those in Part II take a closer look at the structural nature of prefixes and how they differ from suffixes, exploring the complications related to their derivation. Part III investigates the finer detail of the algorithm, presenting its most recent innovations, in order to resolve some challenging data patterns relating to (apparent) non-local allomorphy, neutralization, ABA-patterns, and theme vowels. The volume’s final part looks forward to new avenues of investigation, with chapters on phonologically-conditioned allomorphy, selection, and multilingual settings.
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About the Author
Pavel Caha is an associate professor at Masaryk University. His research focuses on the theoretical implications of case marking, declensions, and degree morphology. His work has been published in journals such as
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Morphology, Journal of Linguistics, and Glossa, and in reference works including The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Morphology, and The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology.Karen De Clercq is a CNRS researcher affiliated with the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at Université Paris Cité. Her main research interest is the morphosyntax of negation, which she approaches from a typological and nanosyntactic perspective. She is the author of
The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers (Mouton de Gruyter, 2020), and co-editor of Exploring Nanosyntax (OUP, 2018) and Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages (OUP, 2023).Guido Vanden Wyngaerd is a full-time professor at KU Leuven for the fields of Dutch and General Linguistics. His current research focuses on negation and adjectival degrees from a nanosyntactic perspective. His publications include
Dissolving Binding Theory (with Johan Rooryck; OUP, 2011), as well as a number of articles in leading international journals and reference works. He is an Associate Editor of Glossa.
