Distributed Morphology

Abstract

Distributed Morphology (DM) is a framework that emerged in the 1990s and has become the mainstream approach to morphology in generative linguistics. It assumes that the information encoded about lexical entries is distributed among three lists, one each for syntax, phonology and semantics. This chapter outlines how the data presented in chapter 4 can be accounted for in DM. As naming is not considered a separate topic, most of the phenomena depend on the Encyclopedia, the list with semantic information. However, this is the least elaborated part of the DM framework.

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