Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality

Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality resolves bracketing paradoxes in Japanese through semantically reinforced morphology proper and without complex syntactic supposition or manipulation. Direct Compositionality and lexicalism are maintained in the domain of morpho-semantic interface thanks to Montagovian apparatus.

Kazuhiko Fukushima is professor of linguistics at Kansai Gaidai University.

The List of Abbreviations Preface Chapter 1: Compositionality and Montagovian Morphology Chapter 2: Size-Morphemes and Inalienable Possession Chapter 3: Verbal Morphemes in Suspended Affixation Chapter 4: The Negative Morphemes -nai and its Scope Chapter 5: Compositionality and Bound Morphemes References