Against the heads of words
Abstract
The question of derivation and the internal structure of words are the subject of this paper. we presented and discussed the Righthand Head Rule. Following several language facts, we concluded that RHR is not universal.We deduced also that word formation is closely related to interfaces and distributed morphology.Keywords:
Word, Morphological head, Syntactic head, affixes, interfaces, morphologyReferences
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