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In much work on word formation, the morpho-phonological properties of morphemes are strictly separated from their semantic and morpho-syntactic properties. A morpheme is not a unit taken from the lexicon and combined with other morphemes. Rather, its semantic and morpho-syntactic features are inserted in the semantic and morpho-syntactic components respectively, while only the morpho-phonological component contains its overt form. The three representations thus formed must of course be related, something which is achieved by a set of mapping principles. A range of proposals along these lines can be found in Sproat (1985), Anderson (1992), Halle & Marantz (1993), Beard (1995) and Jackendoff (1997), amongst others. We will refer to models of this type as representationally modular (borrowing a term from Jackendoff).1
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the University of Groningen, the University of Essex and the GLOW Workshop on Null Morphology in Billbao. We would like to thank the audiences for comments. We would further like to thank Gunlög Josefsson, Jack Hoeksema, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Maaike Schoorlemmer, Andrew Spencer, Hans van de Koot, Fred Weerman, Moira Yip and two anonymous reviewers for YoM.
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Ackema, P., Neeleman, A. (2002). Morphological selection and representational modularity. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2001. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3726-5_1
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