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It seems obvious that words are different kinds of entities from phrases. It seems equally obvious, therefore, that morphology should comprise a separate component of the grammar from syntax; the rule of English morphology that attaches -s to dog to form dogs is surely different in kind from the principle of English syntax that states that the appears before (rather than after) head nouns in definite NPs. Obvious, perhaps, but is the idea right? Is there really any reason to believe in the strict separation of morphosyntax from phrasal syntax?
I would like to thank Jill Burstein and Gregory Ward for helpful comments to an earlier version of this review.
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Sproat, R. (1993). Morphological non-separation revisited: a review of R. Lieber’s Deconstructing Morphology . In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1992. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3710-4_9
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