obligatory affixes summary several weeks ago asked traditional notion obligatory affixes recast theory realizational morphology responce exactly overwhelming wish thank greg stump eng101 ukcc uky edu ringe dringe unagi cis upenn edu r beard rbeard coral bucknell edu andrew carstairs mccarthy cmcc ling canterbury ac nz helpful responses responses slightly edited greg stump paradigm function theory language inventory morphosyntactic features assumed determine major syntactic category x paradigm schema set cells associated complete fully specified set morphosyntactic feature specifications appropriate category x latin example features case e nominative genitive dative accusative ablative number singular plural gender masculine feminine neuter determine paradigm schema adjectives consists thirty cells one case number gender combinations adjectives may inflected adjective paradigm viewed inventory inflected forms assigned cells given cell c adjectival paradigm schema corresponding paradigm function applies adjectival lexeme l yield inflected form l assigned c paradigm functions defined terms specific morphological rules including rules exponence rules referral two may come competition evaluation given paradigm function case narrower rule overrides general notion obligatory affixes recast theory notice first architecture theory guarantees every inflected word w category x associated complete fully specified set morphosyntactic feature specifications appropriate x set specifications drives inflection w words morphology pace anderson syntax ensures given word features required affixes question naturally assume lexeme invariant feature specifications e g noun gender simply supplied lexical entry second particular affix position must filled position assumed associated set rules affixal exponence least narrow functions default position questions works choice one affix seems require presence morphosyntactic features otherwise absent may examples could reanalyzed would unfair say chance correspond greg mm references paradigmbased theory morphosemantic mismatches _ language _ 67 1991 675725 theoretical status position class restrictions inflectional affixes _ yearbook morphology 1991 _ ed geert booij jaap van marle 211241 dordrecht kluwer 1992 position classes morphological theory _ yearbook morphology 1992 _ ed geert booij jaap van marle 129180 dordrecht kluwer 1993 rules referral _ language _ 69 1993 449479 uniformity head marking inflectional morphology appear _ yearbook morphology 1994 _ ed geert booij jaap van marle dordrecht kluwer 1995 ringe suggested consulting mit dissertation r rolf noyer features positions affixes autonomous morphological structure mit working papers linguistics dept linguistics philosophy room 20d219 mit cambridge 02139 email address mitwpl athena mit edu cost 12 plus 2 h us 3 outside us background reading noyer dissertation recommends paper halle marantz festschrift sylvain bromberger called view building 20 r beard mentioned book believe lexeme morpheme base morphology published suny press hopefully june theory assumes complex ip functional categories current pp tense aspect mood etc also morpholexical features assume things like gender