Hagit Borer is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to that, she held positions at the University of Southern California and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her main research focuses on the interaction between syntactic structure and word structure, an area that she has pursued from a syntactic perspective, from a morphological perspective, from a semantic perspective, and from the perspective of child language acquisition.
Contents to Volumes I and II
1: Introduction - Words? What Words?
Part I: The Syntax of Derived Nominals
2: Introduction
3: Embedding Syntactic Events Within Nominals
4: AS-Nominals and AS-Nominalizers
5: Event Structure in Short Nominals, the Passive Paradigm
Part II: Taking Form
6: The Skeleton
7: Categorizing Roots
8: Taking Root
9: Structuring Content
10: Taking Form by Phase
11: Semitic Verbal Derivatives - a Prolegomena
12: Synthetic Compounds
13: Conclusion
References
Index