Yearbook of Morphology 2001

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A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2001 a number of articles is devoted to the notion of productivity, and the role of analogy in coining new words. In relation to this topic, constraints on affix ordering in a number of Germanic languages are investigated. A second topic of this volume is the necessity and the role of the paradigm in morphological analyses; arguments for and against the formal role of the paradigm are presented. Thirdly, this volume discusses a number of general issues in morphological theory such as the relation between form and meaning in morphology, the accessibility of the internal morphological structure of complex words, and the interaction of morphology and prosody in truncation processes. Front Matter....Pages i-v Morphological selection and representational modularity....Pages 1-51 Syncretism without paradigms: Remarks on Williams 1981, 1994....Pages 53-85 Defining “Word” in Modern Greek: A response to Philippaki-Warburton & Spyropoulos 1999....Pages 87-114 Reconsidering bracket erasure....Pages 115-146 Morphological and syntactic paradigms: Arguments for a theory of paradigm linkage....Pages 147-180 Affix ordering and productivity: a blend of phonotactics and prosody, frequency, and lexical strata....Pages 181-182 Prosodic restrictions on affixation in Dutch....Pages 183-201 Parsing and productivity....Pages 203-235 A note on the function of Dutch linking elements....Pages 237-252 Neoclassical word formation in German....Pages 253-283 The role of selectional restrictions, phonotactics and parsing in constraining suffix ordering in English....Pages 285-314