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Building words

  • Artemis Alexiadou
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Morphological Metatheory
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Abstract

This chapter discusses some views on syntactic word formation, by focusing on the assumptions being made within the framework of Distributed Morphology. This is contrasted to two other syntactic views on word formation, namely the exoskeletal model and span based word formation. The chapter also discusses the three individual contributions to this volume that precede it and outlines how these relate to the more general issue of word internal complexity.

Abstract

This chapter discusses some views on syntactic word formation, by focusing on the assumptions being made within the framework of Distributed Morphology. This is contrasted to two other syntactic views on word formation, namely the exoskeletal model and span based word formation. The chapter also discusses the three individual contributions to this volume that precede it and outlines how these relate to the more general issue of word internal complexity.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. About the Authors ix
  4. How are words related? 1
  5. Paradigms at the interface of a lexeme’s syntax and semantics with its inflectional morphology 27
  6. A postsyntactic morphome cookbook 59
  7. Discussion 1
  8. Syncretism in paradigm function morphology and distributed morphology 95
  9. Phase domains at PF 121
  10. The costs of zero-derived causativity in English 163
  11. Spans and words 201
  12. Discussion 2
  13. Building words 223
  14. Emergent morphology 237
  15. Morphology as an adaptive discriminative system 271
  16. Readjustment: Rejected? 303
  17. Towards a Restricted Realization Theory 343
  18. Discussion 3
  19. We do not need structuralist morphemes, but we do need constituent structure 387
  20. Inner and Outer morphology in Greek adjectival participles 431
  21. Re-evaluating exocentricity in word-formation 461
  22. Affix ordering in Optimal Construction Morphology 479
  23. On the interplay of facts and theory 513
  24. Discussion 4
  25. Editors’ note 537
  26. Index 541
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.229.08ale

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. About the Authors ix
  4. How are words related? 1
  5. Paradigms at the interface of a lexeme’s syntax and semantics with its inflectional morphology 27
  6. A postsyntactic morphome cookbook 59
  7. Discussion 1
  8. Syncretism in paradigm function morphology and distributed morphology 95
  9. Phase domains at PF 121
  10. The costs of zero-derived causativity in English 163
  11. Spans and words 201
  12. Discussion 2
  13. Building words 223
  14. Emergent morphology 237
  15. Morphology as an adaptive discriminative system 271
  16. Readjustment: Rejected? 303
  17. Towards a Restricted Realization Theory 343
  18. Discussion 3
  19. We do not need structuralist morphemes, but we do need constituent structure 387
  20. Inner and Outer morphology in Greek adjectival participles 431
  21. Re-evaluating exocentricity in word-formation 461
  22. Affix ordering in Optimal Construction Morphology 479
  23. On the interplay of facts and theory 513
  24. Discussion 4
  25. Editors’ note 537
  26. Index 541
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