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Bound morphemes, coordination and bracketing paradox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

KAZUHIKO FUKUSHIMA
KAZUHIKO FUKUSHIMA
Affiliation:
Kansai Gaidai University
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Abstract

Elements necessary for a proper interpretation of a sentence can sometimes be missing from the ‘surface’ representation involving coordination (ellipsis, gapping, etc.). Though different methods have been proposed to recover missing elements, it is not clear how such recovery can be accomplished when they correspond to bound morphemes. Assuming lexicalism, this paper shows how such missing elements are recovered semantically without employing empty place holders, abstract functional categories or invisible movement. Bound verbal morphemes in Japanese introduced here give rise to morpho-semantico bracketing paradoxes which prove to be problematic for a syntactic view of morphology.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , July 1999 , pp. 297 - 320
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Parts of this paper have been presented at the 19th Meeting of Berkeley Linguistic Society, Formal Elegance and Natural Complexity in Morphology Workshop at the 9th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (in Aix-en Provence), and Kansai Gaidai Linguistic Study Group Colloquium. I thank the audiences of these meetings for their contributions. Comments and criticisms from the following individuals have also been valuable: Dunstan Brown, Mary Dalrymple, Takao Gunji, Jun Ikeda, Katsumi Kato, Ed Keenan, Masatoshi Koizumi, Dick Oehrle, Craige Roberts, Harumi Sawada, Shûichi Yatabe and two anonymous referees for Journal of Linguistics. None mentioned here is responsible for the errors and shortcomings found in this paper.