A Review of the Distributed Morphology Theory
Hui Chang · Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies · 2010
The Distributed Morphology is a branch of generative grammar and has developed rapidly in recent years,which focuses on how a word is generated and what is the inner structure of verbal phrases. It absorbs some reasonable spirit of other morphological and syntactic theories,and views the generation of a word as a totally syntactic process. Its research on the phonological realization of a word is a necessary supplement to the traditional generative grammar. This article reviews and comments on the grammar model and technical operations of the Distributed Morphology Theory as well as its differences from other morphological theories and the feature-checking theory of the Minimalist Program.