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Record Nr.

UNINA9910287934403321

Autore

Bonami Oliver

Titolo

The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology / / edited by Olivier Bonami, Gilles Boyé, Georgette Dal, Hélène Giraudo, Fiammetta Namer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Language Science Press, 2018

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-96110-110-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 543 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Empirically oriented theoretical morphology and syntax ; ; 4

Disciplina

415.92

Soggetti

Morphemics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word formation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

After being dominant during about a century since its invention by Baudouin de Courtenay at the end of the nineteenth century, morpheme is more and more replaced by lexeme in contemporary descriptive and theoretical morphology. The notion of a lexeme is usually associated with the work of P. H. Matthews (1972, 1974), who characterizes it as a lexical entity abstracting over individual inflected words. Over the last three decades, the lexeme has become a cornerstone of much work in both inflectional morphology and word formation (or, as it is increasingly been called, lexeme formation). The papers in the present volume take stock of the descriptive and theoretical usefulness of the lexeme, but also adress many of the challenges met by classical lexeme-based theories of morphology.