Felíu Arquiola, Elena
La opacidad sintáctica de las palabras derivadas: una nueva perspectiva
FELÍU ARQUIOLA, Elena. “La opacidad sintáctica de las palabras derivadas: una nueva perspectiva”. ELUA. Estudios de Lingüística. N. 16 (2002). ISSN 0212-7636, pp. 267-287
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/6209
DOI: 10.14198/ELUA2002.16.10
ISSN: 0212-7636
Abstract: 
In this paper we show that the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis (Chomsky,
1970) can be interpreted in two opposite ways. One of these interpretations,
the most frequent one in the literature, bans the access of
syntax to the internal structure of complex words. On the other hand,
the second interpretation bans the syntactic relevance of the semantic
information contained in the base of the derived word. The main
objective of this paper is to show that this second interpretation of the
Lexical Integrity Hypothesis is mistaken. In order to do so, we present
three studies focused on three different Spanish word-formation processes,
in which the semantic properties of the bases determine the
syntactic behaviour of the complex lexical items. In the light of these
studies, we claim that words derived by suffixation can be considered
cases of “nuclearity paradoxes”, in the sense that in this type of complex words the categorial nucleus and the semantic one do not coincide
in the same constituent.
Keywords:Teoría morfológica, Integridad léxica, Palabras derivadas, Sintaxis, Palabras complejas, Chomsky, Noam
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura
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