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Generative Morphology

eBook, English, 1986
De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 1986
1 online resource (247 pages).
9783110877328, 3110877325
1058475267
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter I: The transformationalist treatment of word formation
1. The lexicon: from marginal to central
1.1. Syntactic Structures
1.2. The Standard Theory
2. Word formation as transformations
2.1. The sentence as the source of compounds
2.2. Deletion of lexical material
2.3. Variability in the meaning of compounds
2.4. Absolute exceptions
3. Summary
Chapter II: Lexicalist morphology
1. The Lexicalist Hypothesis (Chomsky 1970)
1.1. Consequences for derivation
1.2. Word stress rules. 2. Prolegomena to a theory of word formation (Halle 1973)
2.1. The model
2.2. Relevance of Halle's theory
2.3. Some criticisms of Halle's model
3. Summary
Chapter III: Word formation in generative morphology
1. Morphemes and words
1.1. The Word Based Hypothesis
1.2. Goals of a morphological theory
2. Word Formation Rules
3. Restrictions on Word Formation Rules
3.1. The base
3.2. The output
4. Summary
Chapter IV: Readjustment rules
1. Readjustment Rules
1.1. Truncation Rules
1.2. Allomorphy Rules
2. Justification of Readjustment Rules. 2.1. Readjustment Rules and Word Formation Rules
2.2. Readjustment Rules and Phonological Rules
3. Summary
Chapter V: Lexical formatives and word formation rules
1. Words and stems
1.1. Learned stems
2. Representation
2.1. External Boundaries
2.2. Formatives of the lexical component
2.3. Class I and Class II Affixes
3. Compounding
3.1. The Variable R Condition
3.2. The "IS A" Condition
3.3. Boundaries in compounds and the Extended Level Ordering Hypothesis
4. Well formedness conditions
5. Summary
Chapter VI: Interplay between morphological rules. 1. Strong Lexicalist Hypothesis
2. Derivation and Inflection
3. Compounding and Derivation
3.1. The Extended Ordering Hypothesis in English
3.2. The Extended Ordering Hypothesis in Italian
4. Compounding and Inflection
5. Some bordeline cases
5.1. The Past Participle
5.2. Evaluative Suffixes
6. Summary
Chapter VII: Constraining word formation rules
1. The Unitary Base Hypothesis
1.1. The Modified Unitary Base Hypothesis
1.2. N, V, A + suffix
1.3. N, V + ata
1.4. N, V + ino
1.5. One suffix or two?
2. The Binary Branching Hypothesis. 2.1. Parasynthetics
2.2. The suffix -istico
3. The Ordering Hypothesis
4. The No Phrase Constraint
5. Blocking
5.1. Productivity
5.2. Blocking and the Blocking Rule
6. Summary
Chapter VIII: Morphology and syntax
1. Word Formation Rules and Transformations
1.1. Locality
1.2. Subcategorization Frames
2. Clitics
3. Interaction between Morphology and Syntax
3.1. Word Bar Theory
3.2. Inflection
4. Summary and conclusions
Symbols and Abbreviations
Subject Index
Affix Index
Word Index
Index of Names
Bibliography