The Distributed Morphcast

Episode I: Lonely Morphemes in a DMless World

The group gathers to hear Augie introduce the problems morphology was facing before the arrival of DM. Examples are presented.

Episode II: A New Hope on the Horizorph

With the combined strength of Delphine and Laura, the group learns about a new theory. But DM has yet to be applied…

Episode III: Back to the Future Tense Marking Paradigm

The group realizes they have to return to their origins and use DM to solve the problems they discovered earlier in order to truly understand the power that has been bestowed upon them.

Episode IV: Frontier Matters (wah wah wah)

When Michael tries to take the group into the unknown of current (and not so current) research, uncomfortable truths about their relationship with Construction Grammar are revealed.

Further Reading

Ackema P. & Neeleman A. (2013). Person features and syncretism. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 31, 901–950.

Alexiadou A., Anagnostopulou E. & Schäfer F. (2015) External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations. A Layering Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bobaljik J. D. (2012). Universals in Comparative Morphology. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Embick D. (2015). Vocabulary Insertion: An Introduction. In: The Morpheme. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. (= Interface Explorations 31)

Fang-Ching Teng S. (2009). Case syncretism in Puyuma. Language and Linguistics 10(4), 819–844.

Gouskova M. & Bobaljik J. D. (submitted). Allomorphy and vocabulary insertion. In: A. Alexiadou, R. Kramer, A. Marantz & I. O. Massuet (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Halle M. & Marantz A. (1993). Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection. In: K. Hale & S. J. Keyser (eds). The View from Building 20. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Harley H. (2014). On the identity of roots. Theoretical Linguistics 40(3/4), 225–276.

Harley H. & Noyer R. (1999). Distributed Morphology. Glott International, 4(4), 3–9.

Kastner I. & Moskal B. (2018). Non-local contextual allomorphy: Introduction to the special issue. Snippets 34(1), 1–3.

McGinnis-Archibald M. (2016). Distributed Morphology. In: A. Hippisley & G. Stump (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Noyer R. (1997). Features, Positions and Affixes in Autonomous Morphological Structure [revised version of 1992 MIT Doctoral Dissertation]. New York: Garland Publishing.

Sauerland U. & Alexiadou A. (2020). Generative Grammar: A meaning first approach. Frontiers in Psychology 11.

Siddiqi D. (2010). Distributed Morphology. Language and Linguistic Compass 4(7), 430–575.

Siddiqi D. (2019). Distributed Morphology. In: J. Audring & F. Masini (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Taraldsen K. T. (2019). An introduction to Nanosyntax. Linguistics Vanguard 5(1).

Wood J. (2015) Icelandic morphosyntax and argument structure. Dordrecht: Springer.