What is Morphology?
Published on 17. August 2004
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-631-20318-6 (ISBN)
Description
Assuming only the most basic background in linguistics, What is Morphology? provides a concise, critical introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology. Designed to familiarize beginning students and specialists alike with the importance of morphology as a subject of research, this reader-friendly volume moves organically from the morphological "facts of everyday life" to important relationships with phonology, syntax, and semantics. What is Morphology? equips readers with the skills to analyze a wealth of classic morphological issues through engaging narration and by direct example. This includes detailed discussion of the complex morphology of one West African language, Kujamaat Joola, and many useful exercises at the ends of the chapters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
undergraduate and graduate students studying morphology as well as general readers
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20318-6 (9780631203186)
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Mark Aronoff is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and served as editor of the journal Language from 1995 to 2000. He is co-editor, with Janie Rees-Miller, of The Handbook of Linguistics (Blackwell, 2001). Kirsten Fudeman is Professor of Linguistics and French Literature at Ithaca College, and has published articles on theoretical morphology and syntax as well as historical Romance linguistics.
Content
PrefaceAbbreviations1. Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis: 1. 1 What is Morphology? 1. 2 Morphemes1. 3 Morphology in Action1. 4 Foundational Beliefs1. 5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis1. 6 SummaryIntroduction to Kujamaat JoolaExercises2. Words and Lexemes: 2. 1 What is a Word? 2. 2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood2. 3 Types of Words2. 4 Inflection vs. Derivation2. 5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process2. 6 The Lexicon2. 7 SummaryKujamaat Joola Noun ClassesExercises3. Morphology and Phonology: 3. 1 Allomorphs3. 2 Prosodic Morphology3. 3 Primary and Secondary Affixes3. 4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy3. 5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages3. 6 SummaryKujamaat Joola MorphophonologyExercises4. Derivation and the Lexicon: 4. 1 The Saussurean Sign4. 2 Motivation and Compositionality4. 3 Derivation and Structure4. 4 SummaryDerivation in Kujamaat JoolaExercises5. Derivation and Semantics: 5. 1 The Polysemy Problem5. 2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes5. 3 SummaryDerivation and verbs in Kujamaat JoolaExercises6. Inflection: 6. 1 What is Inflection? 6. 2 Inflection vs. Derivation6. 3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types6. 4 Syncretism6. 5 Typology6. 6 SummaryAgreement in Kujamaat JoolaExercises7. Morphology and Syntax: 7. 1 Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection7. 2 Structural constraints on morphological inflection7. 3 Inflection and Universal Grammar7. 4 Grammatical function changing7. 5 SummaryKujamaat Joola verb morphologyA brief survey of Kujamaat Joola syntaxExercises8. Morphological Productivity: 8. 1 What is morphological productivity? 8. 2 Productivity and structure: Negative prefixes in English8. 3 Degrees of productivity8. 4 Salience and productivity8. 5 Testing productivity8. 6 ConclusionExercisesGlossaryReferencesIndex