Affixes at the Edge

This article shows how affixal scope and precedence relations fall out in a natural way from properties of the computational system. Using Asymmetry Theory (Di Sciullo 2005), it is proposed that: (i) roots and affixes form minimal trees; (ii) minimal trees compose with each other to form morphologic...

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Published in:Canadian journal of linguistics 2005-12, Vol.50 (1-4), p.83-117
Main Author: Di Sciullo, Anna Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Grammar
Language
Linguistics
Morphology
Object
Part I: Knowledge of Language
Syntax
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Summary:This article shows how affixal scope and precedence relations fall out in a natural way from properties of the computational system. Using Asymmetry Theory (Di Sciullo 2005), it is proposed that: (i) roots and affixes form minimal trees; (ii) minimal trees compose with each other to form morphological phases; (iii) features of a morphological phase edge that are legible at Phonetic Form (PF) determine affix-root linearization; and (iv) ordering of affixes relative to each other follows the Hierarchy of Homogeneous Projections, which constrains scope relations at Logical Form (LF). Three languages are considered: English (which has prefixing and suffixing), Yekhee (strongly prefixal), and Turkish (strongly suffixal). The findings presented here support a parallel model of grammar: morphological derivations (DM) parallel syntactic derivations (DS), with restricted interactions between them.
ISSN:0008-4131
1710-1115
DOI:10.1017/S0008413100003674