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date: 04 July 2022

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This chapter presents an overview of the Word Grammar theory of morphology. Word Grammar is a theory of language structure which has been in development since the early 1980s, with robust results especially in syntax and lexical semantics. Word Grammar has developed analyses of various morphological phenomena, from clitics to Semitic infixation, all within a theory which articulates clearly with other domains of grammar, such as syntax, and which has a well-developed account of the relationship between language and human cognition. Word Grammar is a cognitive, declarative model, which dispenses with covert elements and movement; the morphological dimensions of the theory are in the Word and Paradigm tradition.

Keywords: Word Grammar, default inheritance, multiple inheritance, Word and Paradigm Morphology, Network

Nikolas Gisborne

Nikolas Gisborne is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD in Linguistics from University College London in 1996. His interests include event structure and lexical semantics, and the ways in which events and their participants are linguistically represented. He is the author of The Event Structure of Perception Verbs (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language (Brill, 2019).

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