2014 VOLUME 40 3/4 THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS AN OPEN PEER REVIEW JOURNAL ON THE IDENTITY OF ROOTS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Manfred Krifka Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin & Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik Humboldt-Universität Berlin Germany tl@rz.hu-berlin.de CO-EDITOR Hans-Martin Gärtner Hungarian Academy of Sciences ASSOCIATE EDITORS Edit Doron Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bart Geurts University of Nijmegen Katalin É. Kiss Hungarian Academy of Sciences Scott Myers University of Texas at Austin Maria Polinsky Harvard University Hans Uszkoreit University of Saarbrücken Stephen M. Wechsler University of Texas at Austin
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Theoretical Linguistics 2014 Volume 40 Number 3/4 Contents On the identity of roots 225 Comments Paolo Acquaviva Distributing roots: Listemes across components in Distributed Morphology 277 Artemis Alexiadou Roots don t take complements 287 Elena Anagnostopoulou Roots and domains 299 Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins A monoradical approach to some cases of disuppletion 311 Marijke De Belder Against conflation 331 Hagit Borer Wherefore roots? 343 Jeroen van Craenenbroeck On diagnosing complement-taking roots 361 María Cristina Cuervo Arguments for a root 375 Noam Faust One advantage and three challenges to a theory of roots as indices 389 Marie Labelle Roots in models of grammar 401
vi Contents Phoevos Panagiotidis Indices, domains and homophonous forms 415 Malka Rappaport Hovav Individuation criteria for roots 429 Peter Svenonius Generalized applicatives: Reassessing the lexical functional divide 439 Reply Reply to commentaries, On the identity of roots 447