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This chapter surveys a number of frameworks and theoretical issues in the analysis of derivation and compounding that have occupied morphologists over the last six decades, and begins to assess what has been achieved over this period. Topics include the formal nature of word formation, the relevant units of analysis, the form of morphological rules and processes, the relationship of morphological theory to syntax and phonology, and the theoretical treatment of lexical semantics. The chapter also explores a variety of narrower issues such as bracketing paradoxes, headedness, the question of affix ordering, and the nature of derivational paradigms.

Keywords: derivation, compounding, morphemes, lexical semantics, item and arrangement, item and process, interfaces, headedness, productivity, derivational paradigm

Rochelle Lieber

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire. Her interests include morphological theory, especially derivation and compounding, lexical semantics, and the morphology-syntax interface. She is the author of several books: On the Organization of the Lexicon (IULC, 1981), An Integrated Theory of Autosegmental Processes (State University of New York Press, 1987), Deconstructing Morphology (University of Chicago Press, 1992), Morphology and Lexical Semantics (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Introducing Morphology (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She is the co-author, with Laurie Bauer and Ingo Plag of the Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (Oxford University Press, 2013). Together with Pavol Štekauer she has edited two handbooks, the Handbook of Word Formation (Springer, 2005) and the Oxford Handbook of Compounding (Oxford University Press, 2009).

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