[Lexicog] mentee/mentoree

[Mike Maxwell]

Mike Maxwell wrote:
> In his 1980 book "Word Formation in Generative 
> Grammar", Mark Aronoff claimed that regular word formation from 
> non-words (by which he meant uninflected lexemes, as opposed to stems or 
> roots) wasn't even possible.

To say what I meant to say: Aronoff defined 'word' to mean lexeme, i.e. 
basically a word without any inflection.  In English this happens to be 
the citation form, but for a language like Spanish it becomes more 
complicated...  Anyway, what he was claiming (and what I muddled in my 
earlier message) is that words are derived from words.  That is, 
derivational morphology operates attaches affixes to words, not to roots 
or stems.
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


 
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