Morphological Theory

Andrew Spencer is a lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

• Preface. Abbreviations.Part I: Preliminaries.1. The Domain of Morphology.Word Structure.Morphemes, Morphs and Allomorphy.Types of Morphological Operation:.Inflection and Derivation.Morphemes: Things or Rules?.Morphological Formatives: Morphemes as Things.Morphological Formatives: Morphemes as Rules.Summary.Functions of Morphology - Morphosyntax.Summary.2. Basic Concepts and Pre-Generative Approaches.Introduction.Morphological Typology.Morphemes, Words and The Lexicon:.Morphemes and Allomorphy.The Nature of Words.The Lexicon.Structuralist Theories.The Three Models.Morphophonemics.Summary.Exercises.3. Early Generative Approaches.Phonology and Syntax in the Standard Theory:.The Standard Theory in Outline.The SPE Model of Phonology.Morphosyntax in the Standard Theory.Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization': Lexicalist Grammar:.Generative Semantics and Lexical Transformations.Lexicalism.Concluding Remarks on 'Remarks'.Halle's 'Prolegomena'.Siegel's Level Ordering Hypothesis.Aronoff's Word Formation in Generative Grammar:.The Model in Outline.The Form and Function of WFRs.Justifying the Model.The 'Classical' Model of Generative Morphology: Conclusions.Exercises.Part II: The Morphology-Phonology Interface.4. Approaches to Allomorphy.Introduction.The SPE Model.Natural Generative Phonology.Lexical Phonology:.Kiparsky's Alternation Condition.Cyclic Phonology and Lexical Phonology.Lexical Phonology: Summary.Morpholexical Phonology.Allomophy in Natural Morphology.Zwigy's Shape Conditions.Summary.Exercises.5. Nonlinear Approaches to Morphology.Introduction.The Autosegmental Approach to Morphology:.McCarthy's Theory.Some Theoretical Consequences of McCarthy's Approach.Reduplication.Further Applications of Nonconcantenative Morphology:.Alternations Affecting Melody Elements.Alternations Affecting the CV Skeleton.Tones as Morphemes.Prospect.Summary.Exercises.Part III: The Morphology-Syntax Interface.6. Later Generative Theories.Introduction.Basic Issues:.Problems with Level Ordering.Constituent Structure in Morphology.Argument Structure.The Nature of Inflection.The Constituent Structure of Words:.Psg Approaches.Lieber's 'Organization of the Lexicon'.Syntactic Affixation.Template Morphology.Approaches to Inflection:.Basic Issues.Anderson's 'Extended Word-and-Paradigm' Theory.Paradigms as Systems.Paradigm Economy.Summary.Exercises.7. Grammatical Relations.Introduction.Overview of the Phenomena.Theoretical Preliminaries:.Representing Grammatical Relations.Transformational Theories of Passive.The Unaccusative Hypothesis.Matantz's Theory:.Introduction.Affix-Mediated Alternations.Morphological Merger: Causatives.Morphological Merger: Applied Verbs.Baker's Incorporation Theory:.The Basic Principles.PF Identification.Causatives.Applicatives (Applied Verbs).Passives and Antipassives.Conclusions.Lexical Approaches to Valency Alternations:.Valency Alternations in the Llexicon.Williams's Theory.Excursus on Adjectival Passives (Levin and Rappaport).Conclusions: Syntactic and Lexical Approaches.Exercises.8. Compounds.Introduction.Overview of Compound Types:.Basic Concepts.Compounding in Turkish.Root Compounds.English Synthetic Compounds:.Introduction.Roeper and Siegel (1978).Selkirk (1982).Lieber (1983).Di Sciullo and Williams (1987).Syntactic Approaches.Fabb (1984).Sproat (1985a).Roeper (1988).Postscript on Inheritance.Roeper (1987).Semantically Based Accounts of Inheritance.Summary and Conclusions.Exercises.9. Clitics.Introduction.Four Case Studies:.Serbo-Croat.Macedonian.Portuguese.Polish.Résumé.Definitions of Clitics.Cliticization and Agreement.Summary and Conclusions.Exercises.Part IV: The Word in Generative Grammar.10. Bracketing Paradoxes.Introduction: The Phenomena.Bracketing Paradoxes in Lexical Phonology.A Prosodic Approach (Aronoff and Sridhar).Williams's Theory of 'Lexical Relatedness'.Pesetsky's 'Morphological QR'.Sproat's Mapping Principle.Bracketing Paradoxes and Paradigmatic Word Formation.Appendix: Sproat's Formalism.Exercises.11. The Place of Morphology.Introduction.Di Sciullo and Williams's Definition of Word'.The Separation Hypothesis.Zwicky's 'Interface Program'.Autolexical Syntax.Post-Syntactic Compounding in Japanese.Parallel Morphology.Conclusions.Notes.References.Subject Index.Name Index.Language Index.

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