ABSTRACT |
The purpose of this paper is to formulate the principles and rules that
govern the insertion of lexical material into the slots of morphological
templates. Templates in a functional theory of morphology represent
underlying structures that are related to morphological constructions by
means of trees, which unfold templates and map template components onto
structural or functional blocks of morphological constructions. The
insertion of elements into the slots of the template is governed by
general principles, syntactic rules and morphological rules. Syntactic
rules are semantically motivated, that is, they relate template slots to
word functions. Morphological rules make reference to the morphological
nature of lexical elements, whether they are free or bound and whether
they are basic or derived.
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