@inbook{5fbcf57186fd4b188b1330747a8b167b,
title = "The Extreme Poverty of Affixation in Chinese: Rarely Derivational and Hardly Affixational",
abstract = "This chapter explores the morphological poverty of the Chinese from an empirical perspective. Until recently, the nature of affixation in Chinese is still not well recognized and has been one of the hotly debated topics in Chinese morphology. Based on the CKIP Morphological Database (incl. 4025 “affixes” in Chinese), this chapter covers the issue of the lack of affixation in Chinese based on a range of linguistic facts and empirical arguments such as lack of productivity and irregularities in word-formation rules.",
keywords = "derivation, affixation, Chinese morphology, statistical modeling, morphological productivity",
author = "Shu-Kai Hsieh and Jia-Fei Hong and Chu-Ren Huang",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1017/9781108329019.010",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781108420075",
series = "Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "158--173",
editor = "Chu-Ren Huang and Yen-Hwei Lin and I-Hsuan Chen and Yu-Yin Hsu",
booktitle = "The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics",
address = "United Kingdom",
}