The book’s title, Lexical Relatedness, evokes issues associated with paradigmatic sense relations, such as homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, and so forth, i.e. issues more appropriately ascribed to the realm of lexical semantic studies. Although questions such as the elusive partition between polysemy and homonymy are not left untouched by the author, Andrew Spencer goes indeed in another, far-reaching direction, and develops a powerful model of morphology in the tradition of so-called INFERENTIAL-REALIZATIONAL approaches, as Stump (2001: 3) labels WORD-AND-PARADIGM theories of inflection. Far from being a mere implementation of Stump’s (2001) PARADIGM FUNCTION MORPHOLOGY, Spencer’s book offers a profound and comprehensive view of various morphological phenomena encompassing inflectional and derivational phenomena.
Andrew Spencer , Lexical relatedness: A paradigm-based model. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii + 451.
MELLONI, Chiara
2014-01-01
Abstract
The book’s title, Lexical Relatedness, evokes issues associated with paradigmatic sense relations, such as homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, and so forth, i.e. issues more appropriately ascribed to the realm of lexical semantic studies. Although questions such as the elusive partition between polysemy and homonymy are not left untouched by the author, Andrew Spencer goes indeed in another, far-reaching direction, and develops a powerful model of morphology in the tradition of so-called INFERENTIAL-REALIZATIONAL approaches, as Stump (2001: 3) labels WORD-AND-PARADIGM theories of inflection. Far from being a mere implementation of Stump’s (2001) PARADIGM FUNCTION MORPHOLOGY, Spencer’s book offers a profound and comprehensive view of various morphological phenomena encompassing inflectional and derivational phenomena.
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