Suspended affixation with derivational suffixes and lexical integrity

• Main Author: Akkuş, Faruk
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2016
• Subjects: 0; computational morphology; paradigms; inflection; derivation; Levenshtein distance; morphological processing; stem frequency; Italian; masked priming; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis

In this paper, I investigate suspended affixation, particularly suspended affixation formed with derivational suffixes with a focus on Turkish. Showing that this phenomenon is attested in both the nominal and verbal domain, I defend the argument that such constructions cannot be reduced to an account of natural coordination or be explained as being part of the lexical word formation. Accordingly, I discuss the relevance of the suspended affixation for the morphology-syntax interface. I conclude that it might have significant implications for the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis (LIH).