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Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality
Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes
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2022
Summary
In Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality: Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes, Kazuhiko Fukushima resolves bracketing paradoxes in Japanese—morphological vs. semantic incongruity, which supposedly pose insurmountable obstacles to traditional and simple-minded morphology—within morphology (the lexicon) proper. This resolution is achieved through formal semantic apparatus developed by Richard Montague and his followers, hence the label Montagovian Morphology. More generally and theoretically, this book addresses the issue of the optimal interface between morphology, which deals with minimal units of meaning and their combination within a word, and semantics, which handles increasingly larger units of meaning in the sentence. Fukushima argues that the nature of the interface is directly compositional, requiring no complex syntactic supposition or manipulation other than putting words together as is. The author concludes that a semantically reinforced morphological—that is, lexical—approach is superior to a syntactic one for characterizing the mapping between morphological and semantic domains, and that syntax per se cannot supersede morphology.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8810-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8811-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
242
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The List of Abbreviations No access
Preface No access
1. Compositionality and Montagovian Morphology No access Pages 1 - 36
2. Size-Morphemes and Inalienable Possession No access Pages 37 - 80
3. Verbal Morphemes in Suspended Affixation No access Pages 81 - 110
4. The Negative Morpheme -nai and Its Scope No access Pages 111 - 172
5. Compositionality and Bound Morphemes No access Pages 173 - 206
