Derivation without lexical rules

The structure of the paper is as follows. We start with a very short introduction about the residence of word-formation rules in modern feature-based theories. After that we present our approach to derivational morphology which is distinguished in that it gives up the notion of lexical rule as a single entity (operator). We describe the structure of affixes and words (e.g., which attributes are appropriate?) and introduce the relevant principles and the rule schema of our approach to derivational morphology. The section shows how to reduce functional dependencies to a minimum at the cost of the size of our feature structures. We also present a technique which allows us to state relational dependencies as they are called by HPSG in a functional manner. In the next section we show how the whole treatment works by applying it to tough phenomena from prefixation and suffixation. The section presents many examples which might serve as a how to guide to a practitioner. After that we explain the idea which will lead us to the affix hierarchy. We will see that the affix hierarchy is inspired by the work of HPSG on structured lexicons (i.e., by the hierarchy of lexical types). A lot of examples will again be given throughout this section. We finish the paper by summarizing our approach and by saying a few words about the topics which we will tackle next. (orig./GK)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RR 1812(93-27) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Forschung und Technologie (BMFT), Bonn (Germany)DEGerman