Introduction to English Derivational Morphology
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1983
XXXVIII, 533 pages
978-90-272-8041-1 (ISBN)
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This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words -- even apparently simplex ones. This is done by showing that three (morpho-)phonological processes which tend to hide surface sound-meaning relationships must be taken into account when constructing a synchronic grammar of Modern English: ablaut, obstruent shift, and vowel shift.
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Theodore M. Lightner
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Content
- INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- FOREWORD
- NOTES
- Corrigenda et Adden
- ABBREVIATION
- SYMBOLS
- PHONOLOGICAL SYMBOLS
- NOTES
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Overview
- 2. A Few Examples
- 2.1 Two
- 2.2 Cooperative
- 2.3 Goose
- 3. Review and a Few More Examples
- 4. What is the Scope of Phonological Rules?
- 5. Conclusion
- NOTES
- PREFIXES
- 1. Latin
- 2. Greek
- 3. Germanic
- 4. Alternate Forms of Prefixes
- NOTES
- I. ABLAUT IN STRONG VERBS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On Stratificational Linguistics
- 2.1 A Stratificational Principle
- 2.2 Stratificational Analyses of Monachi, Latin, and English Phonology
- 2.3 Counterexamples from Slavic
- 3. Past and Past Participles
- 3.1 Vowel-Shortening before Consonant Clusters
- 3.2 The Participial Endings
- 3.2.1 -ed
- 3.2.2 -n
- 3.2.3 -t
- 3.2.4 -d
- 3.2.5 -ø
- 3.2.6 Once Again on #ed
- 3.3 Attachment of PAST- and PRT-Endings to Verb-Stems
- 3.4 Some Critical Remarks
- 4. Ablaut in Strong Verbs
- 5. Ablaut in Word-Formation
- 6. On Syllabics
- NOTES
- II. AN ENGlISH OBSTRUENT SHIFT
- 1. Examples of the Shift
- 1.1 ? ~ f
- 1.2 t ~ ?
- 1.3 k ~ h
- 1.4 b ~ p
- 1.5 d ~ t
- 1.6 g ~ k
- 1.7 Discussion
- 1.8 px & f or b
- 1.9 tx & ? or f/b or d
- 1.10 kx & k or h or g
- 1.11 kwl73 & ? (t before e) or kw or wh
- 1.12 gw & b (d before e) or g/v or kw
- 1.13 kxw & ph (th before e) or f/v or gw/w
- 2. Grammatical Relationship of Examples in §1
- 2.1 Historical Relationship
- 2.2 Possibility of Similarity by Chance
- 2.3 Consistency in Obstruent Alternations
- 2.4 Verner's Law
- 2.5 Realizations and Distribution of n: Overlapping
- 3. Toward Formalization
- 3.1 The Underlying Segments of English
- 3.2 Sonorants
- 3.3 The English (Germanic) Stop Shift
- 3.4 Grimm's Law
- 3.5 The Non-Germanic Obstruents
- 4. The Obstruent Shifts
- 5. Five Examples
- 5.1 Initial gn-: Analogy
- 5.2 On "ot-Verbs
- 5.3 Hotel: Vowel Deletion
- 5.4 Norway
- 5.5 Long ~ lengthy, slow ~ sloth &c
- NOTES
- III. AN ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Length Alternations
- 3. Vowel Alternations
- 3.1 A ~ æ
- 3.2 ? ~ e
- 3.3 I ~ i
- 3.4 O ~ o & a
- 3.5 U ~ u
- 3.6 AW
- 4. Analysis of the Shift
- 4.1 Reflexes from the Great Vowel Shift
- 4.2 Examples of U: an Ordering Paradox
- 4.3 The Rule(s) for Great Vowel Shift
- 4.4 On the Format for the Umlaut Rule
- 5. Five Closing Examples
- 5.1 Nostril [OE nospyrl 'nose-hole']
- 5.2 Ballistics &c
- 5.3 Haplology: pacifism and formic(ide)
- 5.4 OY in anoint, join, destroy, toils, royal &c
- 5.5 Star, Anecdote, and the Path to the Future
- NOTES
- APPENDIX
- 1. Consonants
- 1.1 s ~ r
- 1.2 s- ~ h-
- 1.3 b ~ v
- 1.4 p ~ v
- 1.5 h ~ ø
- 1.6 ƒ ~ v
- 1.7 s ~ z
- 1.8 ? ~ ?
- 1.9 d ~ s (z)
- 1.10 t ~ s
- 1.11 k ~ s
- 1.12 g ~ g
- 1.13 bi, vi, pi ~ g/z (only in French)
- 1.14 k ~ c
- 1.15 k ~ s
- 1.16 t ~ s (z)
- 1.17 t ~ c
- 1.18 d ~ z/g
- 1.19 sk ~ s
- 1.20 s ~ s
- 1.21 s/z ~ z
- 2. Vowels
- 2.1 A ~ :
- 2.2 E ~ :
- 2.3 I ~ :
- 2.4 O ~ :
- 2.5 U ~ :
- 2.6 AW ~ :
- 2.7 OY ~ :
- NOTES 264-281
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ENGLISH WORD INDEX
