Distributed morphology today : morphemes for Morris Halle /
Matushansky, Ora,editor.
Marantz, Alec,editor.
Halle, Morris,honouree.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,
[2013]
This book offers a snapshot of current research in distributed morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Distributed morphology, which integrates the morphological with the syntactic, originated in Halle's work. This book, written to mark his 90th birthday, makes an original theoretical contribution to the field and emphasises Halle's foundational contributions to the study of morphology.
Contents; Morris, Distributed: An Introduction; Abbreviations; 1 Variability and Allomorphy in the Morphosyntax of Catalan Past Perfective; 2 Phonological and Morphological Interaction in Proto-Indo-European Accentuation; 3 Agree and Fission in Georgian Plurals; 4 More or Better: On the Derivation of Synthetic Comparatives and Superlatives in English; 5 Is Word Structure Relevant for Stress Assignment?; 6 Locality Domains for Contextual Allomorphy across the Interfaces; 7 Cycles, Vocabulary Items, and Stem Forms in Hiaki; 8 "Not Plus" Isn't "Not There": Bivalence in Person, Number, and Gender
9 Morphemes and Morphophonological Loci10 Agreement in Two Steps (at Least); 11 Suspension across Domains; 12 Contextual Neutralization and the Elsewhere Principle; References; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index; Language Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This festschrift honors Morris Halle, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, for his many foundational and lasting contributions to our understanding of morphology."
This book offers a snapshot of current research in distributed morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Distributed morphology, which integrates the morphological with the syntactic, originated in Halle's work. This book, written to mark his 90th birthday, makes an original theoretical contribution to the field and emphasises Halle's foundational contributions to the study of morphology.
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