Explorations in Seamless Morphology
The book sets out the seamless approach introduced by linguists at the University of\ Montreal. The shared assumptions and principles of the lexicase and Montreal approaches to seamless morphology are apparent in all the essays in this volume.\ Seamless morphology maintains that any correlations between shape and the interpretation or distribution of words are to be accounted for in terms of analogical formulae or 'word formation strategies', rather than in terms of hierarchical...
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Developing their linguistic theories from the separate directions of phonology and Chomskyan syntactic theory, Singh (linguistics, U. de Montréal, Canada), Starosta (formerly, linguistics, U. of Hawai'i, US), and their colleagues converged on a shared conception of seamless (or whole-word) morphology. The first three chapters, of 13 total, present a general picture of the former's theory of morphology. The latter's response is contained in a section dealing with the internal structure of Chinese compounds and of verbs with incorporated nouns, as well as Micronesian compounds. Other papers critique the Gesamtbedeutung analysis of morphologically complex words. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Acknowledgements9Introduction111Prolegomena to a Theory of Non-Paninian Morphology182Some Advantages of Linguistics without Morpho(pho)nology433In Praise of Sakatayana: Some Remarks on Whole Word Morphology664On So-called Compounds775On Defining the Chinese Compound Word: Headedness in Chinese Compounding and Chinese VR Compounds906Do Compounds have Internal Structure? A Seamless Analysis1167Micronessian Noun Incorporation: A Seamless Analysis1488Semantic Fragmentation in Word-Formation: The Case of Spanish -AZO1979Towards a Universal Theory of Shape-invariant (Templatic) Morphology: Classical Arabic Re-considered21210Paradigmatic Morphology27011The Importance of Being Ernist28412A Perfect Strategy for Latin30113Morphology in Minimal Information Grammar328About the Editors and Contributors339Index341
