A-Morphous Morphology

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
1 - The study of word structure......Page 21
1.1 How are words composed?......Page 23
1.2 The nature of words......Page 31
2 - Why have a morphology at all?......Page 36
2.1 Morphology and syntax in Kwakw\'ala......Page 37
2.2 Morphology vs. syntax in general......Page 51
2.3 Morphology vs. phonology......Page 56
2.4 Conclusion......Page 61
3.1 Classical morphemes......Page 62
3.2 Classical problems with morphemes......Page 65
3.3 Generalizing the structure of the morpheme......Page 70
3.4 Items vs. processes in morphology......Page 73
3.5 Word-based vs. morpheme-based morphology......Page 83
3.6 Conclusion......Page 85
4 - The interaction of morphology and syntax......Page 87
4.1 What is inflection?......Page 88
4.2 Morphosyntactic Representations......Page 99
4.3 Conclusion......Page 114
5 - The theory of inflection......Page 116
5.1 Agreement......Page 117
5.2 The assignment of configurational properties......Page 132
5.3 Deriving the phonological form of inflected words......Page 136
5.4 Conclusion......Page 149
6 - Some complex inflectional systems......Page 150
6.1 Georgian Verb agreement......Page 151
6.2 Potawatomi inflectional morphology......Page 170
Appendix: summary of Potawatomi rules......Page 191
7.1 The lexicon......Page 194
7.2 Derivational rules......Page 198
7.3 Productivity and lexicalization......Page 209
7.4 Conclusion......Page 211
8 - Clitics are phrasal affixes......Page 212
8.1 The nature of clitics......Page 213
8.2 The nature of affixes......Page 219
8.3 Clitics as phrase-level morphology......Page 224
8.4 The formal expression of `clitic placement\'......Page 230
8.5 Conclusions......Page 235
9 - The relation of morphology to phonology......Page 238
9.1 Boundary elements in phonological theory......Page 241
9.2 The interaction of morphology and phonology......Page 263
9.3 Conclusion......Page 269
10.1 Eliminating word-internal structure......Page 270
10.2 Possible motivations for word-internal structure......Page 275
10.3 Conclusion......Page 304
11 - Composites: words with internal structure......Page 306
11.1 Compounds and their structure......Page 308
11.2 Generalizing the notion of `compound\'......Page 313
11.3 Word-internal structure and theories of the lexicon......Page 319
11.4 The notion `head of a word\'......Page 324
11.5 Summary and conclusion......Page 332
12.1 Goals of a morphological typology of languages......Page 334
12.2 Sapir\'s typology of word structure......Page 339
12.3 Conclusion......Page 348
13 - Morphological change......Page 350
13.1 Morphological change and synchronic morphology......Page 351
13.2 The morphologization of phonological rules......Page 353
13.3 The morphologization of syntactic structures......Page 360
13.4 Analogy, or changes in morphological rules......Page 379
13.5 Conclusion......Page 386
14.1 Reasons to study morphology as parsing......Page 387
14.2 Approaches to computational morphology......Page 390
14.3 Some general problems......Page 401
14.4 Alternatives to existing approaches......Page 407
14.5 Conclusion......Page 413
References......Page 416
Index......Page 431