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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811634103321

Autore

Wójcicki Adam

Titolo

Constraints on suffixation : a study in generative morphology of English and Polish / / Adam Wójcicki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen : , : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , 1995

ISBN

3-11-095889-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (108 pages)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten ; ; 340

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Polish language - Suffixes and prefixes

English language - Suffixes and prefixes

Generative grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Theoretical Background -- Chapter II. Constraints on stem-based suffixation in English - the predictions of lexical phonology -- Chapter III. Constraints on the base of morphological rules - verbalizing suffixes in polish -- Chapter IV. Constraints on the operation of morphological rules - deverbal suffixation in Polish -- Concluding remarks -- References

Sommario/riassunto

The book is a generative study of a number of English and Polish processes of suffixation. It focuses on various constraints on such processes. The allomorphy of English inflection is shown to follow from language-specific constraints on syllable structure. English derivational suffixes are shown to be crucially sensitive to the morphological make up of their bases - the majority fails to attach to a suffixed stem, while the rest attaches to a well-defined subset of all suffixed stems. Thus some major tenets of the current mainstream generative theory of the lexicon (Affix Ordering Generalization and Bracket Erasure Convention) are called into question. A detailed discussion of verbalizing processes of contemporary Polish reveals that rules of suffixation are subject to constraints on their bases the proper formulation of which specially involves the distinction root/stem. Markedly distinct characteristics of



root-based and stem-based morphological rules are thoroughly discussed. The productive deverbal morpholocial processes in Polish are shown to require access to more than one component formative in the base, which seriously undermines some constraints advanced in the literature (Adjacency condition, Atom condition).