The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology

Olivier Bonami (ed), Gilles Boyé (ed), Georgette Dal (ed), Hélène Giraudo (ed), Fiammetta Namer (ed)

Synopsis

After being dominant during about a century since its invention by Baudouin de Courtenay at the end of the nineteenth century, morpheme is more and more replaced by lexeme in contemporary descriptive and theoretical morphology. 

The notion of a lexeme is usually associated with the work of P. H. Matthews (1972, 1974), who characterizes it as a lexical entity abstracting over individual inflected words. Over the last three decades, the lexeme has become a cornerstone of much work in both inflectional morphology and word formation (or, as it is increasingly been called, lexeme formation). The papers in the present volume take stock of the descriptive and theoretical usefulness of the lexeme, but also adress many of the challenges met by classical lexeme-based theories of morphology.

Chapters

  • Introduction
    Olivier Bonami, Gilles Boyé, Georgette Dal, Hélène Giraudo, Fiammetta Namer
    Chapter 0
  • Morphology and words: A memoir
    Mark Aronoff
    Chapter 1
  • Lexemes, Categories and Paradigms: what about cardinals?
    Gilles Boyé
    Chapter 2
  • Word formation and word history: the case of CAPITALIST and CAPITALISM
    Franz Rainer
    Chapter 3
  • Nom et/ou adjectif ? Quelle catégorie d’output pour les suffixés en -iste ?
    Delphine Tribout, Dany Amiot
    Chapter 4
  • Les adverbes en -ment du français : lexèmes ou formes d’adjectifs ?
    Georgette Dal
    Chapter 5
  • Des lexèmes à forme unique: comment le créole réanalyse les dérivations du français
    Florence Villoing, Maxime Deglas
    Chapter 6
  • Some remarks on clipping of deverbal nouns in French and Italian
    Pavel Štichauer
    Chapter 7
  • Lexeme and flexeme in a formal theory of grammar
    Olivier Bonami, Berthold Crysmann
    Chapter 8
  • The morphology of essence predicates in Chatino
    Hilaria Cruz, Gregory Stump
    Chapter 9
  • Why traces of the feminine survive where they do, in Oslo and Istria: How to circumvent some ‘troubles with lexemes’
    Hans-Olav Enger
    Chapter 10
  • The Haitian Creole copula and types of predication: a Word-and-Pattern account
    Alain Kihm
    Chapter 11
  • On Lexical Entries and Lexical Representations
    Andrew Spencer
    Chapter 12
  • Troubles with flexemes
    Anna M. Thornton
    Chapter 13
  • Reduplication across boundaries: The case of Mandarin
    Chiara Melloni, Bianca Basciano
    Chapter 14
  • La parasynthèse à travers les modèles : des RCL au ParaDis
    Nabil Hathout, Fiammetta Namer
    Chapter 15
  • Much ado about morphemes
    Hélène Giraudo
    Chapter 16
  • Les affixes dérivationnels ont-ils des allomorphes ? Pour une modélisation de la variation des exposants dans une morphologie à contraintes
    Fabio Montermini
    Chapter 17
  • A frame-semantic approach to in affixation
    Ingo Plag, Marios Andreou, Lea Kawaletz
    Chapter 18
  • Word formation in LFG-based Layered Morphology and Two-Level Semantics
    Christoph Schwarze
    Chapter 19
  • Lexeme equivalence or rivalry of lexemes?
    Jana Strnadová
    Chapter 20

Reviews

  • Review in Language 96(2) by Laurie Bauer published June 1, 2020
    [...] As a festschrift, this collection ticks all the boxes by showcasing the theoretical and practical advances that derive from the work of the honoree. There is not a bad paper in the collection, and while the writers do not agree among themselves, there is something for anyone interested in a lexeme-based morphology (or indeed, any model of morphology, whether lexeme-based or not) to consider and discuss. As a collection of papers, independent of the reason it has been put together, it illustrates the kind of work that is going on in Francophone morphological study, of which the Anglophone world is largely ignorant and from which it could benefit. The book contains papers from leading Francophone morphologists whose work is worthy of wider appreciation. As a book about lexemes, it illustrates profusely some problems and advantages of a lexeme-based morphology from multiple viewpoints. It does not necessarily present a coherent view on all topics, but one sufficient to give both people working within such a model and people working within different models an insight into areas of potential difficulty and areas of real strength. [...]

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Biographies

Olivier Bonami, Université Paris Diderot

Olivier Bonami is Professor of Linguistics at Université Paris Diderot and Chair of the research unit "Laboratoire de linguistique formelle" (UMR7110 - Université Paris Diderot & CNRS). His recent research adresses a variety of issues in morphology and its interface with phonology and syntax, including inflectional classification, implicative relations, the typology of exponence, periphrasis, and paradigmatic relations in derivational morphology. His work combines formal grammar (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Paradigm Function Morphology, Information-based Morphology) and quantitative modeling of morphological systems, and applies these methods to data from typologically diverse languages.

Gilles Boyé

Gilles Boyé is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Université Bordeaux Montaigne and a member of the research unit "Cognition Langues Langage Ergonomie" (UMR5263 - Université de Toulouse & CNRS). He has worked extensively on the structure and morphophonology of the French inflection system. His recent research focuses on computational approaches to the description and modeling of paradigms and other morphological families.

Georgette Dal, Université de Lille

Georgette Dal is Professor of Linguistics at Université de Lille and member of the research unit "Savoirs, Textes, Langage" (UMR 8163 - Université de Lille & CNRS). Her research mainly deals with the use of real data in derivational morphology. Recurrent objects are productivity, creativity and emergence of new morphological patterns.

Hélène Giraudo, CNRS (Toulouse)

Hélène Giraudo is a CNRS Researcher in Psycholinguistics and Chair of the research unit "Cognition Langues Langage Ergonomie" (UMR5263 - Université de Toulouse & CNRS). Her research focuses on the cognitive processes underlying morphological processing and adresses issues related to lexical access and the mental lexicon, the role of morphology in language acquisition, reading acquisition and bilingualism. Her work aims to model the structure and the functioning of the mental lexicon and is broadly influenced by the notion of salience in linguistics, the lexeme-based theory and the theoretical Construction Morphology framework.

Fiammetta Namer, Université de Lorraine

Fiammetta Namer is Professor of Linguistics at Université de Lorraine and member of the research unit "Analyse et Traitement Automatisé de la Langue Française" (UMR 7118 - Université de Lorraine & CNRS). Her research focuses on Word Formation in French, and covers the fields of description, theory and Natural Language Processing. It includes the study of real data from the Internet, the question of the role of paradigms in derivation with particular attention to the issue of meaning-form asymetry, and the acquisition of large-scale derivational resources for French.

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February 19, 2018
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Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax

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Bonami, Olivier, Boyé, Gilles, Dal, Georgette, Giraudo, Hélène & Namer, Fiammetta (eds.). 2018. The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology. (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 4). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1402520
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