Morphology is in the lexicon

Abstract

A major issue in the study of word formation is the relation of aspects of word structurein particular, inflections-to syntactic processes. With the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), the lexicon reemerged as an important area of study, and there is now general agreement that derivational morphology is lexical.' The location of inflectional morphology is more controversial. Anderson (1982) defends the hypothesis that inflectional morphology depends crucially on the output of the syntax and is therefore performed by postsyntactic interpretive rules. We will refer to this position as interpretive morphology. Others have generalized the lexicalist hypothesis by generating inflectional forms in the lexicon, for example Lapointe (1979), Lieber (1980), Williams (1981), and Kiparsky (1982). We will refer to this position as lexical morphology. Lapointe, for example, states the Generalized Lexical Hypothesis (GLH) as in (1).

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