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Paradigms, periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account

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Yearbook of Morphology 1996

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How to model the relation between inflection and syntax has been a perennial topic of debate. Broadly speaking, there have been two general classes of solution. The first assimilates morphology to syntax, drawing on the descriptive categories and constructs appropriate to the latter — zeros/empty categories, movement rules, X-bar projections, etc — to characterise the former. Examples of this approach range from classic Item-and-Arrangement Morphology to Baker’s Incorporation model (Baker 1988) to Minimalism (Chomsky 1993; Halle and Marantz 1993:166–70). The second strategy sees the two domains as related but independent and does not require that the same set of theoretical devices be used to characterise both. This view is reflected in the traditional word-and-paradigm (WP) approach and in its modern reworking by scholars such as Matthews (1972) and Anderson (1992).

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Workshop on Inflectional Morphology convened by Greert Booij at the 7th International Morphology Meeting in Vienna on and to the other participants for their helpful comments and discussion. Thanks for their comments go as well to Bob Borsley, Andrew Carstairw-McCarthy and two anonymous refress.We would also like to ac knowledge a Small Research Grant from the British Academy which enabled Kersti Börjars to attend the ESSLLI Summer School at Barcelona in 1995, and thus led indirectly to some of the ideas formulated here.

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Börjars, K., Vincent, N., Chapman, C. (1997). Paradigms, periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account. In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1996. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3718-0_10

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