129448 20231219145827.0 doi 10.1515/ling-2019-0025 sideral 106346 ART-2019-106346 eng Mendívil Giró, José Luis Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6891-6275 If everything is syntax, why are words so important? An a-morphous but non-lexicalist approach 2019 This paper presents the hypothesis that words (and not morphemes) are the minimal units of connection between sound and meaning in human languages. Such a proposal implies the definition of the word as a categorized syntactic derivation that is linked in memory to a representation in the sensorimotor system. The main implications of the hypothesis are the following: (i) A non-lexicalist model is compatible with the phenomena of lexical integrity and lack of productivity that motivate lexicalist models. (ii) It can be concluded that bound morphemes (roots and affixes) are neither syntactic nor conceptual entities, but purely morpho-phonological ones. Morphemes are side effects of linguistic change operating as resources to optimize the processing and memorization of words. And (iii) a neo-constructionist conception of words is made compatible with a paradigmatic morphology. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI-FEDER/FFI2017-82460-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.872 2019 LINGUISTICS 99 / 187 = 0.529 2019 Q3 T2 0.479 2019 Linguistics and Language 2019 Q1 Language and Linguistics 2019 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3010 575 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Lingüíst. Gral. e Hisp. Área Lingüística General 57, 5 (2019), 1161–1215 Linguistics LINGUISTICS 0024-3949 3609335 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129448/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1518991 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129448/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:129448 articulos driver 2023-12-19-13:59:22 ARTICLE