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Be-heading the word1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Laurie Bauer
Laurie Bauer
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Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Notions of ‘head’ and ‘modifier’ have a long and respectable history in syntax, although they have changed considerably in recent years. But the application of similar notions to morphology is relatively new. The extension of these notions to morphology has been prompted by two developments:

(i) Intimations from dependency grammarians that their approach to language ought to be generalizable to morphology (Andersen, 1980); and, far more importantly

(ii) The development of lexicalist theories of word-formation using an X-bar notation.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 1 - 31
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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