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Explorations in Seamless Morphology Explorations in Seamless Morphology Edited by Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta in collaboration with Sylvain Neuvel SAGE Publications New Delhi n Thousand Oaks n London Copyright © Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta, 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. First published in 2003 by Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave New Delhi 110 017 Sage Publications Inc Sage Publications Ltd 2455 Teller Road 6 Bonhill Street Thousand Oaks, California 91320 London EC2A 4PU Published by Tejeshwar Singh for Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, typeset at InoSoft Systems in 10 pt Nalandabaskar and printed at Chaman Enterprises, Delhi. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Explorations in seamless morphology/edited by Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta with the assistance of Sylvain Neuvel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Grammar, Comparative and general�Morphology. I. Singh, Rajendra, 1943� II. Starosta, Stanley. III. Neuvel, Sylvain. P241.E94 415�dc21 2003 2002151158 ISBN: 0�7619�9594�3 (US-Hb) 81�7829�223�8 (India-Hb) Sage Production Team: Zarin Ahmad, Sushanta Gayen and Santosh Rawat for Mana, the grand-daughter of Stanley † Starosta (1939�2002) †Stanley Starosta, the author of The Case for Lexicase (1988) and, more importantly, a friend of the other editor and grand- father of Mana, died of a heart attack last year. He will always be remembered for his penetrating insights and his integrity. Contents Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 11 Rajendra Singh and Stanley Starosta 1. Prolegomena to a Theory of Non-Paninian 18 Morphology Alan Ford and Rajendra Singh 2. Some Advantages of Linguistics without 43 Morpho(pho)nology Alan Ford and Rajendra Singh 3. In Praise of �akat�yana: Some Remarks on Whole 66 Word Morphology Rajendra Singh and Alan Ford 4. On So-called Compounds 77 Rajendra Singh and Probal Dasgupta 5. On Defining the Chinese Compound Word: 90 Headedness in Chinese Compounding and Chinese VR Compounds Stanley Starosta, Koenraad Kuiper, Siew Ai Ng and Zhiqian Wu 6. Do Compounds have Internal Structure? 116 A Seamless Analysis Stanley Starosta 7. Micronesian Noun Incorporation: 148 A Seamless Analysis Stanley Starosta 8 ! Contents 8. Semantic Fragmentation in Word-Formation: The 197 Case of Spanish -AZO Franz Rainer 9. Towards a Universal Theory of Shape-invariant 212 (Templatic) Morphology: Classical Arabic Re-considered Robert R. Ratcliffe 10. Paradigmatic Morphology 270 Thomas Becker 11. The Importance of Being Ernist 284 Probal Dasgupta 12. A Perfect Strategy for Latin 301 Byron W. Bender 13. Morphology in Minimal Information Grammar 328 Danko …Sipka About the Editors and Contributors 339 Index 341 Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce papers originally published by them: 1. Linguistic Analysis for P. Dasgupta, �The Importance of Being Ernist�. 2. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin for Starosta et al., �On defining the Chinese compound word�. 3. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, the publishers of the original French version of Ford and Singh, �Linguistics without Morphophonology�. 4. Folia Linguistica, the publishers of the original French ver- sion of A. Ford and R. Singh, �Prolegomena to a theory of Non-Paninian morphology�.
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