On the Status of Stems in Morphological Theory

Embick, David; Halle, Morris

doi:10.1075/cilt.270.03emb

In:Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November
Edited by Twan Geerts, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 270] 2005
► pp. 37–62

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On the Status of Stems in Morphological Theory

David Embick | University of Pennsylviana

Morris Halle | MIT

Published online: 8 November 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.270.03emb

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