Generative Morphology
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Generative Morphology

  1. 247 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Generative Morphology

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Chapter I: The transformationalist treatment of word formation
  4. 1. The lexicon: from marginal to central
  5. 1.1. Syntactic Structures
  6. 1.2. The Standard Theory
  7. 2. Word formation as transformations
  8. 2.1. The sentence as the source of compounds
  9. 2.2. Deletion of lexical material
  10. 2.3. Variability in the meaning of compounds
  11. 2.4. Absolute exceptions
  12. 3. Summary
  13. Chapter II: Lexicalist morphology
  14. 1. The Lexicalist Hypothesis (Chomsky 1970)
  15. 1.1. Consequences for derivation
  16. 1.2. Word stress rules
  17. 2. Prolegomena to a theory of word formation (Halle 1973)
  18. 2.1. The model
  19. 2.2. Relevance of Halle’s theory
  20. 2.3. Some criticisms of Halle’s model
  21. 3. Summary
  22. Chapter III: Word formation in generative morphology
  23. 1. Morphemes and words
  24. 1.1. The Word Based Hypothesis
  25. 1.2. Goals of a morphological theory
  26. 2. Word Formation Rules
  27. 3. Restrictions on Word Formation Rules
  28. 3.1. The base
  29. 3.2. The output
  30. 4. Summary
  31. Chapter IV: Readjustment rules
  32. 1. Readjustment Rules
  33. 1.1. Truncation Rules
  34. 1.2. Allomorphy Rules
  35. 2. Justification of Readjustment Rules
  36. 2.1. Readjustment Rules and Word Formation Rules
  37. 2.2. Readjustment Rules and Phonological Rules
  38. 3. Summary
  39. Chapter V: Lexical formatives and word formation rules
  40. 1. Words and stems
  41. 1.1. Learned stems
  42. 2. Representation
  43. 2.1. External Boundaries
  44. 2.2. Formatives of the lexical component
  45. 2.3. Class I and Class II Affixes
  46. 3. Compounding
  47. 3.1. The Variable R Condition
  48. 3.2. The “IS A” Condition
  49. 3.3. Boundaries in compounds and the Extended Level Ordering Hypothesis
  50. 4. Well formedness conditions
  51. 5. Summary
  52. Chapter VI: Interplay between morphological rules
  53. 1. Strong Lexicalist Hypothesis
  54. 2. Derivation and Inflection
  55. 3. Compounding and Derivation
  56. 3.1. The Extended Ordering Hypothesis in English
  57. 3.2. The Extended Ordering Hypothesis in Italian
  58. 4. Compounding and Inflection
  59. 5. Some bordeline cases
  60. 5.1. The Past Participle
  61. 5.2. Evaluative Suffixes
  62. 6. Summary
  63. Chapter VII: Constraining word formation rules
  64. 1. The Unitary Base Hypothesis
  65. 1.1. The Modified Unitary Base Hypothesis
  66. 1.2. N, V, A + suffix
  67. 1.3. N, V + ata
  68. 1.4. N, V + ino
  69. 1.5. One suffix or two?
  70. 2. The Binary Branching Hypothesis
  71. 2.1. Parasynthetics
  72. 2.2. The suffix -istico
  73. 3. The Ordering Hypothesis
  74. 4. The No Phrase Constraint
  75. 5. Blocking
  76. 5.1. Productivity
  77. 5.2. Blocking and the Blocking Rule
  78. 6. Summary
  79. Chapter VIII: Morphology and syntax
  80. 1. Word Formation Rules and Transformations
  81. 1.1. Locality
  82. 1.2. Subcategorization Frames
  83. 2. Clitics
  84. 3. Interaction between Morphology and Syntax
  85. 3.1. Word Bar Theory
  86. 3.2. Inflection
  87. 4. Summary and conclusions
  88. Symbols and Abbreviations
  89. Subject Index
  90. Affix Index
  91. Word Index
  92. Index of Names
  93. Bibliography