METAMORFOLOGÍA (II): OBJETO DE LA MORFOLOGÍA
Abstract
By recurrently dealing with a large number of units of various sorts (morphemes, nouns, gender, inflection, prefixes, conjunctions, and so forth), Morphology is at risk of conceptual dispersion. In order not to disperse, the issue of what is the "proper" object of study in Morphology has been raised. Bearing in mind the centrality of all those units, the selectión of a proper, specific term should have profound implications, both stemming from and influencing other fields of Linguistics. Thus, there has not been unanimity in the above selection: one tendency favours the morpheme, whereas a second tendency favours the word. In the presente paper I shall explain why both preferences are not mutually exclusive, but they are the proper object of study in Morphology.Downloads
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