Types of lexical complexity in English: Syntactic categories and the lexicon
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2012
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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This study focuses on minimal (non-compound, non-phrasal) signs that are nevertheless
internally complex in their syntactic categorization. Sometimes this is signalled by morphology
– affixation or internal modification. But there are also conversions. In terms of
categorial structure, we can distinguish between absorptions, where the source of the
base is associated with a distinct category, and incorporation, where the base is categorially
constant. Incorporation is thus typically reflected in inflectional morphology.
Absorption may be associated with morphological change or conversion – with retention
of the base in a different categorization. But categorial complexity may be nonderived,
covert: the categorial complexity of an item is evident only in its syntax and
semantics.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 47.4 (2012), pp. 3-51