Lexical semantics
Halle & Marantz 1993
#### Halle \& Marantz 1993

[thumbnail\|Halle \& Marantz 1993 structure](/wiki/File:Distributedmorphtree.png "Distributedmorphtree.png")
[Morris Halle](/wiki/Morris_Halle "Morris Halle") and [Alec Marantz](/wiki/Alec_Marantz "Alec Marantz") introduced the notion of [distributed morphology](/wiki/Distributed_morphology "Distributed morphology") in 1993\.Halle, Morris; Marantz, Alec (1993\), Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection, The View from Building 20 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 111–176 This theory views the syntactic structure of words as a result of morphology and semantics, instead of the morpho\-semantic interface being predicted by the syntax. Essentially, the idea that under the Extended Projection Principle there is a local boundary under which a special meaning occurs. This meaning can only occur if a head\-projecting morpheme is present within the local domain of the syntactic structure.Marantz, Alec. 1997\. '[No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own Lexicon](https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1795&context=pwpl).' Proceedings of the 21st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Penn Working Papers in Linguistics The following is an example of the tree structure proposed by distributed morphology for the sentence *"John's destroying the city"*. *Destroy* is the root, V\-1 represents verbalization, and D represents nominalization.


What are some potential applications of distributed morphology in language modeling?