A-Morphous Morphology Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The study of word structure	7
1.1	How are words composed?	9
1.2	The nature of words	17
2	Why have a morphology at all?	22
2.1	Morphology and syntax in [actual symbols not reproducible]	23
2.2	Morphology vs. syntax in general	37
2.3	Morphology vs. phonology	42
2.4	Conclusion	47
3	Is morphology really about morphemes?	48
3.1	Classical morphemes	48
3.2	Classical problems with morphemes	51
3.3	Generalizing the structure of the morpheme	56
3.4	Items vs. processes in morphology	59
3.5	Word-based vs. morpheme-based morphology	69
3.6	Conclusion	71
4	The interaction of morphology and syntax	73
4.1	What is inflection?	74
4.2	Morphosyntactic Representations	85
4.3	Conclusion	100
5	The theory of inflection	102
5.1	Agreement	103
5.2	The assignment of configurational properties	118
5.3	Deriving the phonological form of inflected words	122
5.4	Conclusion	135
6	Some complex inflectional systems	136
6.1	Georgian Verb agreement	137
6.2	Potawatomi inflectional morphology	156
	Appendix: summary of Potawatomi rules	177
7	Morphology in the lexicon: derivation	180
7.1	The lexicon	180
7.2	Derivational rules	184
7.3	Productivity and lexicalization	195
7.4	Conclusion	197
8	Clitics are phrasal affixes	198
8.1	The nature of clitics	199
8.2	The nature of affixes	205
8.3	Clitics as phrase-level morphology	210
8.4	The formal expression of 'clitic placement'	216
8.5	Conclusions	221
9	The relation of morphology to phonology	224
9.1	Boundary elements in phonological theory	227
9.2	The interaction of morphology and phonology	249
9.3	Conclusion	255
10	How much structure do words have?	256
10.1	Eliminating word-internal structure	256
10.2	Possible motivations for word-internal structure	261
10.3	Conclusion	290
11	Composites: words with internal structure	292
11.1	Compounds and their structure	294
11.2	Generalizing the notion of 'compound'	299
11.3	Word-internal structure and theories of the lexicon	305
11.4	The notion 'head of a word'	310
11.5	Summary and conclusion	318
12	Morphology and the typology of languages	320
12.1	Goals of a morphological typology of languages	320
12.2	Sapir's typology of word structure	325
12.3	Conclusion	334
13	Morphological change	336
13.1	Morphological change and synchronic morphology	337
13.2	The morphologization of phonological rules	339
13.3	The morphologization of syntactic structures	346
13.4	Analogy, or changes in morphological rules	365
13.5	Conclusion	372
14	Morphology as a computational problem	373
14.1	Reasons to study morphology as parsing	373
14.2	Approaches to computational morphology	376
14.3	Some general problems	387
14.4	Alternatives to existing approaches	393
14.5	Conclusion	399
	References	402
	Index	417