Download or read book The Morpheme written by David Embick and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology. Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in which functional morphemes receive their phonological form post-syntactically, through the operation of Vocabulary Insertion. In addition to looking closely at syncretism, the primary motivation for Vocabulary Insertion, the book examines allomorphy, blocking, and other key topics in the theory of the morpheme.