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Book SynopsisIn Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality: Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes, Kazuhiko Fukushima resolves bracketing paradoxes in Japanesemorphological vs. semantic incongruity, which supposedly pose insurmountable obstacles to traditional and simple-minded morphologywithin morphology (the lexicon) proper. This resolution is achieved through formal semantic apparatus developed by Richard Montague and his followers, hence the label Montagovian Morphology. More generally and theoretically, this book addresses the issue of the optimal interface between morphology, which deals with minimal units of meaning and their combination within a word, and semantics, handles increasingly larger units of meaning in the sentence. Fukushima argues that the nature of the interface is directly compositional, requiring no complex syntactic supposition or manipulation other than putting words together as is. The author concludes that a semantically reinforced morphologicalthat is, lexic
Table of Contents
The List of Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1: Compositionality and Montagovian Morphology
Chapter 2: Size-Morphemes and Inalienable Possession
Chapter 3: Verbal Morphemes in Suspended Affixation
Chapter 4: The Negative Morphemes -nai and its Scope
Chapter 5: Compositionality and Bound Morphemes
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