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This paper is the one that launched Genrative Morphology
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Aronoff, Mark (1974). Word-structure. PhD diss., MIT.
Siegel, Dorothy (1974). Topics in English Morphology. PhD diss., MIT.
Jackendoff, Ray (1975). Morphological and Semantic Regularities in the Lexicon. Language 51, 639-671.
Allen, Margaret (1978). Morphological Investigations. PhD diss., University of Connecticut.