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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN LINGUISTICS WORD FORMATION ...

This book aims to reconcile the generative considerations of Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture
(PA) with the European structuralist approach to naming. It shows that there are good reasons
to single out word formation as a separate component in PA. It demonstrates that it is a
drawback not to distinguish word formation  and explains that the function of word formation
rules is different from the function of the lexicon and rules of grammar. After making the
argument for a separate word formation component  the book sets out to determine which types of
rule qualify as part of this component. Traditionally  the boundaries of word formation with
inflection and with syntax have been a matter of debate. By focusing on the naming function 
the book poses a guiding principle for determining which rules should be in the word formation
component. The position of morphology in the architecture of grammar has always been an issue
of debate in generative linguistics. Since Chomsky (1970)  thisquestion has been framed in
terms of the Lexicalist Hypothesis. Compared to Chomsky's architectures  Jackendoff's Parallel
Architecture places phonetic and conceptual structures at the same level as syntactic structure
i.e. connected by bidirectional linking rules rather than interpretation rules. One of the
consequences is that PA does not formally distinguish lexicon entries from rules of grammar.
This changes the setting for the question of the autonomy of morphology  because the Lexicalist
Hypothesis depends on this distinction.

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