NUGER’S BOOK PUBLISHED

Alum Justin Nuger (Ph.D. 2010) reports that a revised version of his dissertation was recently published by Springer in their Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory series. The title is Building Predicates, and here is a short abstract:

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the processes involved in word formation and the morphosyntax of predication that will appeal to anyone interested in formal syntactic and morphological theory. The data is drawn primarily from the Austronesian language Palauan, spoken in Micronesia and smaller communities elsewhere. The thesis is that words in Palauan are not drawn directly from a mental lexicon, but are instead composed at least partially via operations in the syntax. Using original data from syntactic constructions not previously explored in the language, the author entertains several competing theories of word formation and highlights the compatible and incompatible aspects of each.

You can check out the book on Springer here. Justin mentions that it is very rewarding to see all that work (and especially the Palauan data) in print, and he again would like to thank his committee for their support during the project: Judith Aissen, Sandy Chung, Jim McCloskey, and Kie Zuraw.