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"Generative grammar is a divided field, one of the major arenas for debate being the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. A provocative intervention in the key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation between structure and meaning, and analyses how it affects the internal properties of words. Adapting notions from the Evo-Devo project in biology (the idea of 'co-linearity' between structural units and behavioural manifestations) Juan Uriagereka addresses a major puzzle: how words can be both decomposable so as to be acquired by children, and atomic, so that they do not manifest themselves as modular to adults."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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