This study attempts to broaden the theory of morphology in two respects. First, it is argued that both inflectional and derivational morphology should be performed within the lexicon, and, in fact, that they require the same sorts of formal processes. Second, an attempt is made to constrain the interaction of morphological rules, and thereby to limit the notion of "possible word". A theory of t...

Three lexical decision experiments were carried out to investigate the nature of morphological decomposition in the lexical system. The first of these experiments compares the priming effect of inflectionally and derivationally related forms on a simple inflected word. Italian derived words like mutevole (changeable) were as effective as non-derived inllected words like mutarono (they changed) ...

This paper reports on a survey of 62 languages with complex local case morphology, drawn from 5 language families and several language isolates. The local case morphology of all the languages surveyed conforms, without exceptions, to the template in (1), as detailed below. This template shares with recent analyses of spatial PPs (Koopman 2000, den Dikken 2006, Svenonius to appear) the view that...

Fungwa marks the diminutive by fronting non-high vowels of nominal roots and augmentative backing roots. The root-vowel mutation is considered to be an effect morphemes which have [?back] [+back] features as their phonetic exponents. form–meaning association consistent with pattern sound-size symbolism in various languages. Thus presents categorical deterministic evidence for symbolism. To acco...

This paper presents a system that generates Basque equivalents to terms that describe disorders in SNOMED CT. This task has been performed using Finite-State transducers and a medical prefixes and suffixes lexicon. This lexicon is composed of English-Basque translation pairs, and it is used both for the identification of the affixes of the English term and for the translation of them into Basqu...

This article presents an unsupervised morphological analysis algorithm to segment words into roots and affixes. The algorithm relies on word occurrences in a given dataset. Target languages are English, Finnish, and Turkish, but the algorithm can be used to segment any word from any language given the wordlists acquired from a corpus consisting of words and word occurrences. In each iteration, ...

Many approaches to unsupervised morphology acquisition incorporate the frequency of character sequences with respect to each other to identify word stems and affixes. This typically involves heuristic search procedures and calibrating multiple arbitrary thresholds. We present a simple approach that uses no thresholds other than those involved in standard application of χ2 significance testing. ...