Morphology, Semantics and the Lexicon
Dafydd Gibbon
Summer Semester 1996
Version: June 19, 1996

 
• Contents
• 1 Course Description
• 2 Term Plan (subject to revision)
• 3 Topics in Morphology
  • Definitions
  • Points for discussion
  • Linguistic signs
  • The ILEX project
  • The ILEX sign concept
• 4 Inflection: forms
  • Inflection
  • Inflection and parts of speech (POS) in English
  • Inflectional morphotactics
  • ID structure
  • QLP structure
  • CM structure
  • Report on `Inflection: forms', Andrea Paulsen, 25 April 1996
• 5 Inflection: meanings
  • Default meanings of inflectional categories
  • Dimensions of interpretation of inflectional categories
  • The boundaries of inflection
• 6 Morphological generalisations
  • Generalisations
  • Morphological generalisations
  • Kinds of morphological generalisation
  • Related aspects of compositionality
  • Morphology in Integrated Lexicon Theory
  • The Immediate Dominance rank scale
  • Expressing generalisations
  • Suggestions for discussion
  • A Project
  • Background materials
• 7 Compounding: forms
  • Preliminary notes on `Compounding: forms' - DG
• 8 Compounding: meanings
  • Preliminary notes on `Compounding: meanings' - DG
• 9 Derivation: forms
  • Stems and affixes
  • ID compositionality and QLP operations
  • The Level Ordering Hypothesis
  • The Finite State Hypothesis for Derivation
  • Suggestions for further work on` Derivation: forms'
• 10 Derivation: meanings
  • Preliminary notes on `Derivation: meanings' - DG
  • The compositionality of derivational meaning
  • The meanings of affixes
  • Further points for discussion
• 11 Paradigm morphology
  • Preliminary notes on `Paradigm Morphology' - DG
• 12 Project: formulation and test
• 13 Project: discussion of results
• References
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