Word-formation and the lexicon

Abstract

According to a widespread view the lexicon is a kind of appentlix to the grammar, whose function is to list what is unpredi.ctableand irregular about the words of a language.In more recent studi.es it has been acquiring a rich internal organization of its own and is becoming recognized as the site of pervasive grammatical J."egularities.The particular approach to the lexicon that I will oesume in this paper comes out of this trend, integrating several ideas from work on both morphology and phonology in the seventies.i shall begin by outlining the central assumptions and their motivation, and proceed to a series of issues raised by this framework which have 1 to• do with the proper formulation of word-formation processes.

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