2005 WordFormationAndInflMorphology

• (Stump, 2005) ⇒ Gregory T. Stump. (2005). “Word-Formation and Inflectional Morphology.” In: Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber editors, Handbook of Word-Formation.

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1. The Conceptual Difference Between Inflection and Word-Formation

• Here and throughout, I follow the convention of representing lexemes in capital letters.
• A lexeme is realized by one or more words (whether in the phonological or the grammatical sense); the full system of words realizing a lexeme is its paradigm. Some of the (phonolgoical and grammatical) properties of a words are properties of the lexeme that it realizes; othera are not. Thus, the lexeme BE is assumed to posses the properties shared by the words be, am, was, and been, but not the unspecified properties that distinghis h these for words.
• Given the distinction between phonological words, grammatical words, and lexemes, one can draw a related distinction ebtween two sorts of morphology. On the one hand, inflectional morphology allows one to deduce the phonolgoical and grammatical properties of the words realizing the lexeme. On the other hand, word-formation allows one to deduce the properties of one lexeme from those of one or more other lexemes.
• The grammatical properties expressed by a language's inflectional morphology (properties such as 'plural', 'past', and 'superlative') are generally referred to as morphosyntactic properties ; these fall into variaous inflectional categories (such as number, tense, and degree). As Booij (1996) shows, it is useful to distinguish two sorts of inflection on semantica grounds: inherent inflection expresses morphosyntactic properties that embody independedn semantic information about the referent of the inflected words, while contextual inflection expresses morphosyntactic properties that do not embody such information, but are associated with the inflected word purely as an effect of its syntactic context; for instance, a noun' number inflectino is one sort of inherent inflection, while tan agreeing adjective's number inflection is instance contextual.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2005 WordFormationAndInflMorphology	Gregory T. Stump			Word-Formation and Inflectional Morphology			http://books.google.com/books?id=uAkB96vFnLYC&pg=PA49