In intuitive terms to be sharpened below, the micromorphology hypothesis is the hypothesis that an affix can itself be morphologically complex. This is a widespread assumption in descriptive accounts of the morphology of individual languages; yet, with only the rarest exceptions (e.g., the proposals of Bauer 1988; Bochner 1992 and Luis & Spencer 2005), morphological theory has tended to reject this hypothesis, most often tacitly. My objective here is therefore threefold. I begin by characterizing the micromorphology hypothesis in more precise terms, exemplifying it with the analysis of nominal inflection in Noon (Niger Congo/Atlantic; Senegal) presented by Soukka (2000) and showing that in a rule-based conception of morphology, this hypothesis entails an operation of rule conflation similar (though not identical) to the operation of function composition in mathematics. I propose an inferential realizational morphological theory that implements the micromorphology hypothesis by incorporating the notion of ...

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形态策略的推理实现理论中的规则合并

用直觉的术语在下文中加以细化，微形态学假说是词缀本身可以在形态上复杂的假说。在描述单个语言的形态时，这是一个普遍的假设。但是，只有极少数的例外（例如，鲍尔1988年的建议；博克纳1992年和路易斯和斯宾塞2005年的提议），形态学理论往往最默认地拒绝了这一假设。因此，我的目标是三个方面。首先，我以更精确的术语来描述微观形态假说，并以Soukka（2000）提出的正午（尼日尔·刚果/大西洋；塞内加尔）名义上的拐点分析为例，并在基于规则的形态学概念中证明了这一点，该假设要求规则合并操作类似于（尽管不完全相同）数学中的函数组合操作。我提出了一种推论的实现形态学理论，该理论通过结合...的概念来实现微形态学假设。