Full Description
The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor issues about technical implementation, but rather are foundational issues that mold the underlying anatomy of any theory. The field has developed very rapidly both theoretically and methodologically, giving rise to many competing theories and varied hypotheses. Many drastically different and often contradictory models and foundational hypotheses have been proposed. Theories diverge with respect to everything from foundational architectural assumptions to the specific combinatorial mechanisms used to derive complex words. Today these distinct models of word-formation largely exist in parallel, mostly without proponents confronting or discussing these differences in any major forum. After forty years of fast-paced growth in the field, morphologists are in need of a moment to take a breath and survey the drastically different points of view within the field. This volume provides such a moment.
Contents
1. About the Authors; 2. How are words related? (by Spencer, Andrew); 3. Paradigms at the interface of a lexeme's syntax and semantics with its inflectional morphology (by Stump, Gregory T.); 4. A postsyntactic morphome cookbook (by Trommer, Jochen); 5. Discussion 1; 6. Syncretism in paradigm function morphology and distributed morphology (by Kramer, Ruth); 7. Phase domains at PF: Root suppletion and its implications (by Kilbourn-Ceron, Oriana); 8. The costs of zero-derived causativity in English: Evidence from reading times and MEG (by Levinson, Lisa); 9. Spans and words (by Svenonius, Peter); 10. Discussion 2; 11. Building words (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 12. Emergent morphology (by Archangeli, Diana); 13. Morphology as an adaptive discriminative system (by Blevins, James P.); 14. Readjustment: Rejected? (by Haugen, Jason D.); 15. Towards a Restricted Realization Theory: Multimorphemic monolistemicity, portmanteaux, and post-linearization spanning (by Haugen, Jason D.); 16. Discussion 3; 17. We do not need structuralist morphemes, but we do need constituent structure (by Bermudez-Otero, Ricardo); 18. Inner and Outer morphology in Greek adjectival participles (by Anagnostopoulou, Elena); 19. Re-evaluating exocentricity in word-formation (by Bauer, Laurie); 20. Editors' note (by Siddiqi, Daniel); 21. Index; 22. Affix ordering in Optimal Construction Morphology (by Inkelas, Sharon); 23. On the interplay of facts and theory: Revisiting synthetic compounds in English (by Lieber, Rochelle); 24. Discussion 4; 25. Editor's Note (by Harley, Heidi)
