Abstract In this paper we offer an overview of the linguistic phenomena that have traditionally been handled by means zero affixes and theoretical debate around advantages disadvantages employing such null morphemes in modeling. While advantage positing is straightforward from empirical perspective (see inflectional syncretism affixless category change, among others), their legitimacy has contr...

An interesting area of psycholinguistic inquiry is to discover the way morphological structures are stored in the human mind and how they are retrieved during comprehension or production of language. The current study probed into what goes on in the mind of EFL learners when processing derivational morphology and how English and Persian derivational suffixes are processed. 60 Iranian EFL learne...

A systematic approach for automatically generating derivational variants based on the SPECIALIST Lexicon was proposed and implemented in Lexical Tools [1]. This approach addressed the prefix (PD), zero (ZD), and suffix (SD) derivations from nominalizations (nomD). This paper describes the generation of SD (not from nomD) based on the Lexicon in the Lexical Tools, including both SD-Facts and SD-...

Remnant movement is movement of an XP β from which extraction of α has taken place; cf. (1). This phenomenon has been argued to support a derivational approach to syntax (cf. Chomsky (1998)): Since remnant movement creates an unbound α trace that is separated from its antecedent by an XP in non-selected position (i.e., a barrier), the wellformedness of the resulting structure is unexpected unde...

It is well known that the phonological form of a word can depend on itsmorphological structure. In serial approaches, this follows naturally from the fact that words have derivational histories: morphologically complexwords undergo successive levels of phonology as they are constructed, making them eligible for different phonological processes along the way. A crucial distinction is typically m...

The Romanian wordnet is a semantic network under ceaseless enrichment and improvement. Its use in various applications throughout time highlighted the need for further development. In this paper we focus on a question answering scenario. We show how adding derivational relations between the literals already present in the network could help increase the effectiveness of using the Romanian wordn...