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date: 21 January 2021

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The term ‘Lexicalism’ refers to a stage in the evolution of Generative Grammar which began in the early 1970s and succeeded the period usually referred to as that of the ‘Aspects model’ or, at the time, the ‘Standard model’. Lexicalism proposed a return to the traditional modularization of the grammar whereby the morphology and the syntax are held to be distinct not only regarding the nature and ‘size’ of the units that they concatenate, but also regarding the characteristics of the outcomes of such concatenation. This chapter discusses the problem of English compounds, the syntax–lexicon continuum of attribution, attribution and the syntax–lexicon divide, mismatches, and compounding and lexical stratification.

Keywords: lexicon, syntax, attribution, lexical stratification, English compounds

Heinz Giegerich

Heinz Giegerich is Professor of English Linguistics in the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. His main research interests have been the phonology and the morphology of English; his contributions to linguistic theory fall mainly in the areas of Metrical Phonology, Lexical Phonology, and Morphology, and more generally the various interfaces of phonology, morphology, and syntax. He is the author of Metrical Phonology and Phonological Structure (Cambridge University Press, 1986), English Phonology (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Lexical Strata in English (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He edits the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language and co-edits, with Laurie Bauer and Greg Stump, the international journal Word Structure.

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