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This paper presents a formalized procedure for describing utterances directly in terms of sequences of morphemes rather than of single morphemes.1 It thus covers an important part of what is usually included under syntax. When applied in a particular language, the procedure yields a compact statement of what sequences of morphemes occur in the language, i.e. a formula for each utterance (sentence) structure in the language.
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See George L. Trager and Bernard Bloch, ‘The Syllabic Phonemes of English’, Lg. 17 (1941), 228.
Bloomfield, Language, ch. 13. Note also Kenneth L. Pike, ‘Taxemes and Immediate Constituents’, Lg. 19 (1943), 65–82, and the method of analysis used for Japanese by Bloch, ‘Studies in Colloquial Japanese II’, Lg. 22 (1946), 200–48.
Bloomfield, Language, ch. 13. Note also Kenneth L. Pike, ‘Taxemes and Immediate Constituents’, Lg. 19 (1943), 65–82, and the method of analysis used for Japanese by Bloch, ‘Studies in Colloquial Japanese II’, Lg. 22 (1946), 200–48.
See, for example, Edward Sapir, Language, New York 1921, 86ff.
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Harris, Z.S. (1981). From Morpheme to Utterance. In: Hiż, H. (eds) Papers on Syntax. Synthese Language Library, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8467-7_4
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