Understanding Morphology
ISBN: 9780340950012 | 0340950013
Edition: 2ndFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 9/24/2010
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This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology as well as research exercises for each chapter.Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of in... MORE
| Introduction | |
| What is morphology? | |
| Morphology in different languages | |
| The goals of morphological research | |
| A brief user's guide to this book | |
| Summary of chapter 1 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Lexical units | |
| Lexems and word forms | |
| Morphemes as ... MORE | |
| Some difficulties in morpheme analysis | |
| Words as the basic lexical units | |
| Reconciling words and morphemes | |
| Summary of chapter 2 | |
| Further reading | |
| Appendix: morpheme-by-morpheme glosses | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Rules | |
| Productivity | |
| Formal operations | |
| The form of morphological rules | |
| Summary of chapter 3 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Inflection and derivation | |
| Inflectional categories | |
| Derivational meanings | |
| Properties of inflection and derivation | |
| Conceptualizations in morphological theory | |
| Associating inflectional properties with words | |
| Summary of chapter 4 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Productivity | |
| Possible, actual and occasional words | |
| Measuring productivity | |
| Morphological change | |
| The relationship between morphological change and synchronic productivity | |
| Restrictions on word-formation rules | |
| Speakers' knowledge of productivity | |
| Summary of chapter 5 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| The hierarchical structure of words | |
| Compounding | |
| Hierarchical structure and head-dependent relations in compounds | |
| Hierarchical structure and head-dependent relations in derived lexemes | |
| Parallelism in syntax and morphology | |
| Summary of chapter 6 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Inflectional paradigms | |
| Types of inflection classes | |
| Describing global inflection classes | |
| Inheritance hierarchies | |
| The role of stmes in inflection | |
| Syncretism | |
| Missing cells: defectiveness, deponency and periphrasis | |
| Syntagmatic and paragigmatic relations in morphology | |
| Summary of Chapter 7 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Words and phrases | |
| Diving text into words | |
| Free forms versus bound forms | |
| Clitics versus affixes | |
| Compounds versus phrases | |
| Lexical integrity | |
| Summary of chapter 8 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Morphophonology | |
| Two types of sound alternations | |
| Process descriptions and sound alternations | |
| Three types of morphophonological alternations | |
| The diachrony of morphophonological alternations | |
| Integrated accounts of phonology and morphology | |
| Summary of chapter 9 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Morphology and valence | |
| Valence-changing operations | |
| Valence in compounding | |
| Transpositional derivation | |
| Transpositional inflection | |
| Summary of chapter 10 | |
| Further reading | |
| Exercises | |
| Research skills | |
| Frequency effects in morphology | |
| Asymmetries in inflection | |
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Martin Haspelmath is Senior Researcher in the Linguistics Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and an Honorary Professor at the University of Leipzig.
Andrea D. Sims is Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics, Ohio State University.
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