Lexical Relatedness: A Paradigm-Based Model

by Andrew Spencer

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual shortcomings in the relation between derivational and lexically-derived word forms, Andrew Spencer suggests, call into question the foundation of the inferential-derivational approach. Prototypical instances of inflection and derivation are separated by a host of intermediate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199679924
• ISBN13: 9780199679928
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"