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  1. Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    Tom Roeper

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  1. Prešov University, Prešov, Slovakia

    Pavol Štekauer

  2. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

    Rochelle Lieber

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Roeper, T. (2005). Chomsky’s Remarks and the Transformationalist Hypothesis. In: Štekauer, P., Lieber, R. (eds) Handbook of Word-Formation. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3596-9_6

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