naa a22 4500 510742491 CHVBK 20180411083033.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11525-013-9220-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11525-013-9220-x Word construction: tracing an optimal path through the lexicon [Elektronische Daten] [Gabriela Caballero, Sharon Inkelas] Optimal Construction Morphology (OCM) is a new construction-based theory of morphology that selects the optimal combination of lexical constructions to best achieve a target meaning. OCM combines elements of realizational and item-based morphological theories. It is realizational, in that words are constructed in response to a given meaning target. It is incremental in that words are built from lexical structures, one layer at a time. It is optimizing in that, in response to a meaning target, the morphological grammar dips into the lexicon, building and assessing morphological constituents incrementally until the word being built optimally matches the target meaning. In this paper OCM is shown to illuminate a vexing optimization puzzle confronted by all theories of morphology: why is redundancy in morphology rejected as ungrammatical in some situations ("blocking”), but absolutely required in others ("multiple/extended exponence”)? The OCM analysis incorporates two notions of morphological strength that have been proposed in the literature: stem type, on a scale from root (weakest) to word (strongest), and exponence strength, related to productivity and parsability. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Morphology nationallicence Multiple exponence nationallicence Extended exponence nationallicence Blocking nationallicence Optimization nationallicence Redundancy nationallicence Morphological strength nationallicence Stem type nationallicence Empty morphs nationallicence Caballero Gabriela Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA aut Inkelas Sharon Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/2(2013-05-01), 103-143 1871-5621 23:2<103 2013 23 11525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9220-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9220-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Caballero Gabriela Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Inkelas Sharon Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/2(2013-05-01), 103-143 1871-5621 23:2<103 2013 23 11525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer