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Lexical Entries and Word Formation

By Susanne Wolff

Seeking to strike a balance between Halle's (1973) morpheme dictionary and Aronoff's (1976) fully-specified lexical entires, Dr. Wolff proposes a synchronic lexicon that includes all and only those items not predictable by synchronically productive rules. Dr. Wolff offers evidence from certain complex forms in English and German that the traditional morphological processes of composition, derivation and inflection are actually instantiations of a single concatenative process, differing in degree but not in kind. Finally, Dr. Wolff proposes that lexical rules, by virtue of their non-idiosyncratic nature, ought to be excluded from the lexicon and instead stored in an altogether separate component.

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