In:The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Brent de Chene
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 368] 2025
► pp. 50–87
Chapter 3The nonsyntactic nature of verbal derivation
Published online: 3 February 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.368.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.368.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2Background and preview
- 3.3Data
- 3.3.1Suffixes and alternations
- 3.3.2Isoradical relations
- 3.4Suffix sequences and their interpretation in DM
- 3.4.1Transitivity suffixes as causative and inchoative little v
- 3.4.2Transitivity suffixes under a Voice-little v split
- 3.5Another case of root-specific suffix orders
- 3.6The meaning of “intransitive” morphology
- 3.7The instability of stem meaning
- 3.8Derivation, inflection, and featural override
- 3.9Conclusion: A lexicon of stems
- 3.10Epilogue: The implications of root-based derivation
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