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Author: Robert Beard
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780791424711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first complete theory of the morphology of language, a compendium of information on morphological categories and operations.
Author: Martin Haspelmath
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1134645961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.
Author: Rochelle Lieber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0521895499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.
Author: Andrew Hippisley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-11-24
Total Pages: 1442
ISBN-13: 1316712451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.
Author: Robert Beard
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Aronoff
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1993-12-02
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780262510721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely morphological phenomena and has focused instead on interface questions, such as the relation between morphology and syntax or between morphology and phonology. In this monograph Mark Aronoff argues that linguists must consider morphology by itself, not merely as an appendage of syntax and phonology, and that linguistic theory must allow for a separate and autonomous morphological component. Following a general introductory chapter, Aronoff examines two narrow classes of morphological phenomena to make his case: stems and inflectional classes. Concentrating first on Latin verb morphology, he argues that morphological stems are neither syntactic nor phonological units. Next, using data from a number of languages, he underscores the traditional point that the inflectional class of a word is not reducible to its syntactic gender. He then explores in detail the phonologically motivated nominal inflectional class system of two languages of Papua New Guinea (Arapeshand Yimas) and the precise nature of the relation between this system and the corresponding gender system. Finally, drawing on a number of Semitic languages, Aronoff argues that the verb classes of these languages are purely inflectional although they are partly motivated by derivational and syntactic considerations.
Author: James P. Blevins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 019959354X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of these models is placed in the larger context of the intellectual lineage that extends from classical grammars to current information-theoretic and discriminative learning paradigms. The synthesis of this tradition outlined in the volume highlights leading ideas about the organization of morphological systems that are shared by word and paradigm approaches, along with strategies that have been developed to formalize these ideas, and ways in which the ideas have been validated by experimental methodologies. An extended comparison of contemporary word and paradigm variants isolates the central assumptions about morphological units and relations that distinguish implicational from realizational models and clarifies the relation of these models to morpheme-based accounts. Designed to be accessible to a wide readership, this book will serve both as an introduction to morphology and morphological theory from the word and paradigm perspective for non-specialists, and for morphologists, as a detailed account of the history of the ideas that underlie these models.
Author: Pavol Štekauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-03-30
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1402035969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most comprehensive book to date on word formation in terms of scope of topics, schools and theoretical positions. All contributions were written by the leading scholars in their respective areas.
Author: Dunstan Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1107005744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as 'Network Morphology'.
Author: Francis Katamba
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780415270793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the merits of each, with the benefit of evidence rather than prejudice.
