"Morphomes pose fatal problems for Item-and-Arrangement theories of morphology; Blocking effects are fatal for Item-and-Process and word-based theories." Discuss.

Suggested Readings [same as for the lectures]

morphomes

• Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by itself, chs. 1-2 (pdf)

• Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo & Ana Luís. 2016. A view of the morphome debate (pdf)

• Blevins, Jim. 2016. Inflectional paradigms (pdf)

• Embick, David. 2016. On the distribution of stem alternants: Separation and its limits. (pdf)

• Maiden, Martin. The ‘Autonomy’ of Morphology in Diachrony (pdf)

• Nevins and Rodrigues 2012, Naturalness biases, morphomes, and the Romance first person singular (pdf)

• Steriade, Donca. 2016. The morphome vs similarity-based syncretism: Latin t-stem derivatives (pdf)

blocking

• Aronoff and Lindsay, Productivity, blocking, and lexicalization (pdf)

• Blevins, Markedness and blocking in German declensional paradigms (pdf)

• Carstairs-McCarthy section 8.4 (pdf)

• Embick et al. 2021, blocking effects (pdf)

• Embick, Blocking effects and analytic/synthetic alternations (pdf)

• Embick and Marantz, Architecture and blocking (pdf)

• Jensen ch. 5 (pdf)

• Kastner 2020, Blocking (pdf)

• Kiparsky, Blocking and periphrasis in inflectional paradigms (pdf)

• *Lieber 2009, ch. 10 (pdf)

• Plag 2002 section 3.5.3 (pdf)

• Poser, Blocking of phrasal constructions by lexical items (pdf)

• *Rainer, Blocking (doc)

Sample essays

Fergus (pdf)

Maria (pdf)

Tamisha (pdf)