Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality: Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes

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.