Abstract
The aim of this paper is twofold: to present the outlines of a theory of Afrikaans phrasal compounding and to discuss the consequences of this theory for the status of the No Phrase Constraint (henceforth: NPC) as a language-independent constraint on word formation rules (henceforth: WFRs)
Highlights
The a~rn of this paper is twofold: to present the outlines of a theory of Afrikaans phrasal compounding and to discuss the consequences of this theory for the status of the No Phrase Constraint (: NPC) as a language-independent constraint on word formation rules (: WFRs) Lexicalist morphologists like Aronoff (1976), Allen (1978), and Roeper and Siegel (1978), amongst others, accept the hypothesis that WFRs cannot take bases which are larger than words, that is, a WFR cannot form a morphologically complex word on the basis of, for example, a syntactic phrase
An analysis of Afrikaans phrasal compounds reveals that these morphologically complex words can be divided into six types according to the syntactic phrase which constitutes the lefthand constituent of such a word
If the analysis presented above were taken to be correct, all AP - N sequences would be analyzed as syntactic phrases of Afrikaans rather as phrasal compounds of Afrikaans
Summary
The a~rn of this paper is twofold: to present the outlines of a theory of Afrikaans phrasal compounding and to discuss the consequences of this theory for the status of the No Phrase Constraint (: NPC) as a language-independent constraint on word formation rules (: WFRs) . Lexicalist morphologists like Aronoff (1976), Allen (1978), and Roeper and Siegel (1978), amongst others, accept the hypothesis that WFRs cannot take bases which are larger than words, that is, a WFR cannot form a morphologically complex word on the basis of, for example, a syntactic phrase This restriction on WFRs is known as the NPC. He has argued that the NPC, as a language-independent constraint, is untenable in its most general form He presents an analysis of Afrikaans synthetic compounds ~hich requires that the NPC be reformulated so that WFRs can apply to a properly defined class of syntactic structures, V1Z. We turn to the generalizations which an analysis of the different types of phrasal compounds rev~als, the outlines of a theory of phrasal compounding and the implications of this theory for the status of the NPC as a language-independent constraint on WFRs
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