Linguistics & Language · Morphology & Syntax
A topic within Morphology & Syntax, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
2 works
Charles F. Hockett
Compares rival ways of segmenting words into morphemes and shows that no single procedure handles every language's word-formation cleanly, motivating the item-and-process alternative to item-and-arrangement morphology.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Mark Aronoff
Reflects on the history of the word-versus-morpheme debate in morphological theory, from the author's own 1976 case for the word as the basic unit of word-formation rules, through to the lexeme-based consensus that grew out of it.