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Hagit Borer
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Selected Publications
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Professor of
Linguistics Department of
Linguistics
Taking as a starting point the study of the human language faculty within
the generative approach, my research for the past 15 years spans three
sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax, morphosyntax and language
acquisition. My study of inter-grammatical variation and comparative
syntax led to the development of the hypothesis that this variation is
reducible to the functional/ inflectional component. This hypothesis,
in turn, served as a starting point for the study of the functional/ inflectional
system in general and its interaction with syntax in particular, therefore
leading to the emergence of a morphosyntactic
model. From a different perspective, these hypotheses brought about the
investigation of child language and the acquisition of grammatical knowledge.
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In recent years, I have been pursuing an approach which shifts the computational load away from the lexical entry to the syntactic structure, subscribing to the view that an independent linguistic lexicon includes a minimal amount of structural information, and that it is structural constraints which determine traditionally lexical properties such as syntactic category type and argument structure. I have pursued the consequences of that approach for morphosyntax, for language acquisition, and for the syntax-semantics interface. |
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