Explorations in Seamless Morphology

352 Pages·2003·0.86 MB·English

by  edited by Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta, in collaboration with Sylvain Neuvel

Explorations in Seamless
Morphology
Explorations in Seamless
Morphology
Edited by
Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta
in collaboration with
Sylvain Neuvel
SAGE Publications
New Delhi n Thousand Oaks n London
Copyright © Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta, 2003
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Explorations in seamless morphology/edited by Rajendra Singh
and Stanley Starosta with the assistance of Sylvain Neuvel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Grammar, Comparative and general�Morphology.
I. Singh, Rajendra, 1943� II. Starosta, Stanley. III. Neuvel, Sylvain.
P241.E94 415�dc21 2003 2002151158
ISBN: 0�7619�9594�3 (US-Hb) 81�7829�223�8 (India-Hb)
Sage Production Team: Zarin Ahmad, Sushanta Gayen and Santosh Rawat
for Mana,
the grand-daughter of Stanley
†
Starosta (1939�2002)
†Stanley Starosta, the author of The Case for Lexicase (1988)
and, more importantly, a friend of the other editor and grand-
father of Mana, died of a heart attack last year. He will always
be remembered for his penetrating insights and his integrity.
Contents
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction 11
Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta
1. Prolegomena to a Theory of Non-Paninian 18
Morphology
Alan Ford and Rajendra Singh
2. Some Advantages of Linguistics without 43
Morpho(pho)nology
Alan Ford and Rajendra Singh
3. In Praise of �akat�yana: Some Remarks on Whole 66
Word Morphology
Rajendra Singh and Alan Ford
4. On So-called Compounds 77
Rajendra Singh and Probal Dasgupta
5. On Defining the Chinese Compound Word: 90
Headedness in Chinese Compounding and Chinese
VR Compounds
Stanley Starosta, Koenraad Kuiper, Siew Ai Ng and
Zhiqian Wu
6. Do Compounds have Internal Structure? 116
A Seamless Analysis
Stanley Starosta
7. Micronesian Noun Incorporation: 148
A Seamless Analysis
Stanley Starosta
8 ! Contents
8. Semantic Fragmentation in Word-Formation: The 197
Case of Spanish -AZO
Franz Rainer
9. Towards a Universal Theory of Shape-invariant 212
(Templatic) Morphology: Classical Arabic
Re-considered
Robert R. Ratcliffe
10. Paradigmatic Morphology 270
Thomas Becker
11. The Importance of Being Ernist 284
Probal Dasgupta
12. A Perfect Strategy for Latin 301
Byron W. Bender
13. Morphology in Minimal Information Grammar 328
Danko …Sipka
About the Editors and Contributors 339
Index 341
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce papers
originally published by them:
1. Linguistic Analysis for P. Dasgupta, �The Importance of Being
Ernist�.
2. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin for Starosta et al., �On defining
the Chinese compound word�.
3. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, the publishers of the original
French version of Ford and Singh, �Linguistics without
Morphophonology�.
4. Folia Linguistica, the publishers of the original French ver-
sion of A. Ford and R. Singh, �Prolegomena to a theory of
Non-Paninian morphology�.