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−	~~#REDIRECT~~ [[~~Adjunct~~ Condition]]	+	'''Adjacency Condition''' is a condition on word formation rules proposed in Siegel (1977) and taken up by Allen (1978) which states that an affixation rule can be made sensitive to the content of an embedded [[morpheme]] only if that [[morpheme]] is the one most recently attached by a morphological rule. Intuitively, the Adjacency Condition prevents a word formation rule from looking into the entire derivational history of morphologically complex words.
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		+	===Examples===
		+	In Dutch, [[adjective]]s can be formed by adding the [[suffix]] ''-baar'' '-able' to [[verbal stem]]s. However, this [[suffix]] takes [[transitive verb]]s as its input only. Hence, ''vinden'' 'to find' ''vindbaar'' 'findable', but ''klimmen'' 'to climb' ''*klimbaar'' 'climbable'. When the transitivising [[prefix]] ''be-'' is added to the [[intransitive verb]] ''klimmen'' though, the derived [[transitive verb]] ''beklimmen'' 'climb' may undergo ''-baar'' [[suffixation]] (''beklimbaar'' 'climbable').
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		+	The Adjacency Condition accounts for the contrast between ''*klimbaar'' and ''beklimbaar'' in the following way. In the first example, the content of the [[verb]] ''klimmen'' is structurally adjacent to the suffix ''-baar'' (''[[klim]<sub>V</sub> baar]<sub>A</sub>''), and given the condition on ''-baar'' [[suffixation]], the [[adjective]] ''klimbaar'' will be ruled out. The situation is crucially different in the second example. In this form the content of the [[verb]] ''klimmen'' is not structurally adjacent to the [[suffix]] ''-baar'' (''[[be [klim]<sub>V</sub>]<sub>V</sub> baar]<sub>A</sub>''), and the Adjacency Condition makes the ''-baar'' suffixation rule insensitive to the intransitive nature of the [[verb]] ''klimmen''.
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		+	===Comment===
		+	Williams (1981) has replaced this condition with his slightly different [[Atom Condition]].
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		+	===Link===
		+	[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Adjacency+Condition&lemmacode=986 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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		+	===References===
		+	*Allen, M.R. 1978. Morphological Investigations, PhD diss. Univ. of Connecticut.
		+	*Scalise, S. 1984. ''Generative Morphology.'' Foris, Dordrecht.
		+	*Siegel, D. 1978. The Adjacency Condition and the Theory of Morphology. ''NELS VIII'', 189-197.
		+	*{{: Spencer 1991}}
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		+	[[Category:Morphology]]

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