TY - CHAP U1 - Buchbeitrag A1 - Raffelsiefen, Renate ED - Olsen, Susan T1 - Idiosyncrasy, Regularity, and Synonymy in Derivational Morphology: Evidence for Default Word Interpretation Strategies T2 - New Impulses in Word-Formation N2 - Perhaps the biggest challenge in derivational morphology is to reconcile morphological idiosyncrasy with semantic regularity. How can it be explained that words with dead affixes and irregulär allomorphy can nonetheless exhibit straightforward and stable semantic relations to their etymological bases (cf. strength ‘property of being strong’, obedience ‘act of obeying’, ‘property of being obedient’)? Theories based on the idea of capturing regularity in terms of synthetic rules for building up complex words out of morphemes along with rules for interpreting such structures in a compositional fashion have not made - and arguably cannot make - sense of this phenomenon. Taking the perspective of the learner in acquisition, I propose an alternative approach to meaning assignment based, not on syntagmatic relations among their constituent morphemes, but on paradigmatic relations between whole words. This approach not only explains the conditions under which meaning relations between words are expected to be stable but also accounts for another notorious mystery in derivational morphology, the frequent occurrence of total synonymy among affixes, as opposed to words. T3 - Linguistische Berichte - Sonderhefte - 17 KW - Wortbildung KW - Ableitung KW - Morphologie KW - Semantik KW - Synonym Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-49121 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-49121 SP - 173 EP - 232 PB - Buske CY - Hamburg ER -