Paradigm in Word Formation Main Reader : Farrell Ackerman Ancillary

The morphological paradigm as a theoretical construct has a central role in explaining inflectional word formation, particularly in Word & Paradigm approaches to morphology. In contrast, research into the role of paradigm in derivation has been programmatic as well as fragmentary. In this paper I investigate the extent to which patterns of relationships among derived words constitute a derivational paradigm. A more comprehensive and precise characterization of derivational paradigm is provided based on a unified treatment of inflection and derivation. Previous diachronic-oriented research (van Marle, 1984; Pounder, 2000) is complemented by a dynamic model I propose for representing the role of derivational paradigms in synchronic word-formation. The proposed model captures local vs. non-local derivational associations as identified via what I refer to as the Paradigmatic Derivate Generalization (PDG). Using the model and a generalized notion of paradigm derived from the rule-patterns of Bochner (1993), a variety of derivational processes in English, French, Tigre and Lithuanian are analyzed to identify the paradigmatic relationships upon which word formation in those languages is dependent. The suitability of the model for implementation using word-formation rules is also demonstrated through an analysis of a fragment of the Lithuanian data using a novel adaptation of Paradigm Function Morphology (Stump, 2001). While inflectional and derivational paradigms are not parallel in function and may differ in their range of applicability, they do share many of the same characteristics. Furthermore, these findings indicate that generalizing the notion of paradigm as a theoretical construct to derivational word formation is supported by cross-linguistic evidence. Derivational Paradigm in Word Formation *