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MORPHOLOGY-SEMANTICS MISMATCHES AND THE NATURE ...

Hybrid nouns have a morphological shape that doesn't match their semantic interpretation. Such
nouns pose clear and interesting questions for the nature of grammatical features. For instance
how does a single feature contribute distinct information values to different components of the
grammar? Furthermore  what does this observation reveal about the syntax  often taken to
mediate between the morphology and the semantics?This book studies hybrid nouns and argues that
a single grammatical feature is comprised of two halves  a semantic half and a morphological
half  that coexist in the syntax before being sent to the respective interfaces. Viewing
features in this way allows us a new look at numerous types of hybrid nouns  such as Imposter
constructions  nouns of collection  as well as nouns like 'furniture' that straddle the
mass-count distinction. Moreover  the study of the agreement patterns of hybrid nouns shows
that semantic features behave differently to morphological features under agreement  providing
a novel insight into the nature of the mechanism that underlies morphosyntactic agreement.

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