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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scalise, Sergio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Riverton, U.S.A. : Foris Publications, 1986, ©1984.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Studies in generative grammar.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Halleâ€?s theory
  • 2.3. Some criticisms of Halleâ€?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 Rules2.1. 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 Aâ€? Condition
  • 3.3. Boundaries in compounds and the Extended Level Ordering Hypothesis
  • 4. Well formedness conditions5. 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 + suffix1.3. 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