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Title:
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Defining Morphology: A principled approach to determining the boundaries of compounding, derivation, and inflection
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Author:
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Pius ten Hacken
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/hackenpten
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Degree Awarded:
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Iowa State University
, English Department
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Degree Date:
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1994
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Morphology
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Director(s):
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David J. Allerton
William Martin
Marc Domenic
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Abstract:
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In the context of Natural Language Processing, the question of how borderlines of compounding, derivation, and inflection with each other and with the area outside of morphology can be determined gains a new relevance. The present work develops a framework providing the background for an answer which is at the same time theoretically interesting and practically useful. On the basis of a thorough discussion of the literature, language-independent definitions are given for compounding, derivation, and inflection. The use of these definitions is illustrated by their application to constructions from various languages.
Since it is not at all obvious a priori what the needs of linguistics and NLP are, Chapter 1 addresses the question of how (parts of) definitions can be evaluated. In a sense, the other chapters are a fairly elaborate justification of the model presented there. They contain critical overviews of criteria found in the literature and trace my search for proper definitions. Chapter 2 is devoted to compounding, which can relatively easily be set apart as a topic, because its most contentious borderline is with syntax. The chapters 3 to 5 cover inflection and derivation, where disentanglement seemed at first an almost hopeless task. Chapter 3 and 4 each treat a borderline of inflection, and chapter 5 presents the definitions of both inflection and derivation. In each case, my definitions are exemplified so as to demonstrate their use.
Book edition: Defining Morphology: A Principles Approach to Determining the Boundaries of Compounding, Derivation, and Inflection. Hildesheim & New York: Olms Verlag. Series 'Informatik und Sprache', volume 4, ISBN number 3-487-09891-1.
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