Recursive compounds

要旨

I propose a structure for recursive compounds in Japanese, English and Mainland Scandinavian within the frameworks of the Minimalist Program ( Chomsky 1995 , 2000 , 2001 ) and Distributed Morphology ( Halle and Marantz 1993 ). Within the proposed theory, Collins’ (2002) definition of head is used: a head is a category which has one or more unsaturated features. Secondly, it is assumed that discharging a theta-feature from a simple nominal is also possible, since nouns are predicates ( Higginbotham 1985 ) and an undischarged theta-feature counts as an unsaturated feature. In addition, the non-head of a compound is argued to be a root without word class features.

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