Publisher's Synopsis
This thesis is an attempt to give an account of word formation in Swedish within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program and Bare Phrase Structure. The purpose is to show that syntactic principles govern the formation of words, and that words must submit to the same demand for asymmetry as do phrases and clauses.;The main part of the work is a demonstration of how the central parts of Swedish word formation, including simple words, compounds, and derivatives, may be described in terms of the recursive operations Merge and Move. It is argued that stems lack word class features, and that word class is a function solely of the inflectional part of a word. The study also explores to what extent the checking part of the syntax restricts word formation.
