Impossible Words: A Reply to Kent Johnson
A response is offered to Kent Johnson's "From Impossible Words to Conceptual Structure: The Role of Structure and Processes in the Lexicon" (Mind and Language, 2004, 19, 3, 334-358), which rebuts Fodor & Lepore's (1999) refutation of impossible-word arguments advanced by Kenn...
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| Abstract | A response is offered to Kent Johnson's "From Impossible Words to Conceptual Structure: The Role of Structure and Processes in the Lexicon" (Mind and Language, 2004, 19, 3, 334-358), which rebuts Fodor & Lepore's (1999) refutation of impossible-word arguments advanced by Kenneth Hale & S. J. Keyser (1993) in favor of a hypothesis, widely accepted in cognitive linguistics, that monomorphemic lexical items have internal structure. Johnson's two principal arguments in rebuttal are held to miss the point of Fodor & Lepore's critique of Hale & Keyser's reasoning, as the latters' counterexamples to the hypothesis readily admit alternative explanations: (1) they leave open the possibility that a transitive verb of which the subject is the thematic patient might be a primitive verb & (2) the ungrammaticality of shelve the book on remains regardless of adoption or rejection of the assumed lexicalization of the ungrammatical syntactic structure. 1 Figure, 3 References. J. Hitchcock |
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| AbstractList | A response is offered to Kent Johnson's "From Impossible Words to Conceptual Structure: The Role of Structure and Processes in the Lexicon" (Mind and Language, 2004, 19, 3, 334-358), which rebuts Fodor & Lepore's (1999) refutation of impossible-word arguments advanced by Kenneth Hale & S. J. Keyser (1993) in favor of a hypothesis, widely accepted in cognitive linguistics, that monomorphemic lexical items have internal structure. Johnson's two principal arguments in rebuttal are held to miss the point of Fodor & Lepore's critique of Hale & Keyser's reasoning, as the latters' counterexamples to the hypothesis readily admit alternative explanations: (1) they leave open the possibility that a transitive verb of which the subject is the thematic patient might be a primitive verb & (2) the ungrammaticality of shelve the book on remains regardless of adoption or rejection of the assumed lexicalization of the ungrammatical syntactic structure. 1 Figure, 3 References. J. Hitchcock |
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