- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- Introduction: Theory and Theories in Morphology
- A Short History of Morphological Theory
- Theoretical Issues in Word Formation
- Theoretical Issues in Inflection
- Structuralism
- Early Generative Grammar
- Later Generative Grammar and Beyond: Lexicalism
- Distributed Morphology
- Minimalism in Morphological Theories
- Optimality Theory and Prosodic Morphology
- Morphology in Lexical-Functional Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- Natural Morphology
- Word and Paradigm Morphology
- Paradigm Function Morphology
- Network Morphology
- Word Grammar Morphology
- Morphology in Cognitive Grammar
- Construction Morphology
- Relational Morphology in the Parallel Architecture
- Canonical Typology
- Morphological Theory and Typology
- Morphological Theory and Creole Languages
- Morphological Theory and Diachronic Change
- Morphological Theory and Synchronic Variation
- Morphological Theory and First Language Acquisition
- Morphological Theory and Second Language Acquisition
- Morphological Theory and Psycholinguistics
- Morphological Theory and Neurolinguistics
- Morphological Theory and Computational Linguistics
- Morphological Theory and Sign Languages
- References
- Language Index
- Index of Names
- General Index
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Abstract and Keywords
This chapter surveys the key principles of the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993, 1994). This summary distinguishes itself from other such summaries by focusing primarily on DM’s morphological properties rather than its syntactic ones. Thus it focuses on morphological concerns such as the morpheme-based hypothesis, realizational morphology, morphological rules, segmentability, derivation vs. inflection, underspecification, productivity, blocking, allomorphy, and the interfaces of morphology with syntax and phonology. This chapter emphasizes metatheoretical concerns that would be of interest to students of comparative morphological theory with a significant focus on the strengths and weaknesses of Distributed Morphology as a theory of morphology. Secondary focus is also given to internal metatheoretic debates such as the status of roots in the grammar and the power of post-syntactic rules.
Keywords: Distributed Morphology, morpheme-based hypothesis, realizational morphology, segmentability, derivation vs. inflection, underspecification, productivity, blocking, allomorphy, morphosyntax
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and English at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research has primarily focused on metatheoretical concerns in Distributed Morphology since he graduated from the University of Arizona in 2006. His other research interests include English morphology, stem allomorphy, productivi-ty, and word processing. He is an editor of the Routledge Handbook of Syntax, Benjamins’ Morphological Metatheory, and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of North American Languages.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- Introduction: Theory and Theories in Morphology
- A Short History of Morphological Theory
- Theoretical Issues in Word Formation
- Theoretical Issues in Inflection
- Structuralism
- Early Generative Grammar
- Later Generative Grammar and Beyond: Lexicalism
- Distributed Morphology
- Minimalism in Morphological Theories
- Optimality Theory and Prosodic Morphology
- Morphology in Lexical-Functional Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- Natural Morphology
- Word and Paradigm Morphology
- Paradigm Function Morphology
- Network Morphology
- Word Grammar Morphology
- Morphology in Cognitive Grammar
- Construction Morphology
- Relational Morphology in the Parallel Architecture
- Canonical Typology
- Morphological Theory and Typology
- Morphological Theory and Creole Languages
- Morphological Theory and Diachronic Change
- Morphological Theory and Synchronic Variation
- Morphological Theory and First Language Acquisition
- Morphological Theory and Second Language Acquisition
- Morphological Theory and Psycholinguistics
- Morphological Theory and Neurolinguistics
- Morphological Theory and Computational Linguistics
- Morphological Theory and Sign Languages
- References
- Language Index
- Index of Names
- General Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics