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9780199202683

The Evolution of Morphology

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    9780199202683

  • ISBN10:

    0199202680

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-02-22
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either throu

Author Biography


Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has a BA (Hons) in Literae Humaniores from Oxford and a PhD on inflectional morphology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In 1969 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and from 1969 to 1972 he was in the linguistics PhD program at MIT. His books include Allomorphy in Inflexion (Croom Helm, 1987), Current Morphology (Routledge 1992), The Origins of Complex Language (OUP, 1999), and An Introduction to English Morphology (EUP 2002).

Table of Contents

Design in Language and Design in Biology
Why There is Morphology: Traditional Accounts
A Cognitive-Articulatory Dilemma
Modes of Synonymy Avoidance
The Ancestors of Affixes
The Ancestors of Stem Alternants
Derivation, Compounding, and Lexical Storage
Morphological homonymy and Morphological Meanings
Conclusions
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