Morphology, Second Edition Palgrave Modern Linguistics

by Katamba, Francis; Stonham, John

• ISBN13: 9781403916433
• ISBN10: 1403916438
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-19
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This is a lively, comprehensive introduction to current morphological theory and analysis is designed to take absolute beginners to a point where they can approach the current literature in the subject. This updated second edition contains numerous in-text exercises that involve the reader in doing morphology by formulating hypotheses and testing them against data from English and numerous other languages, as well as additional reading suggestions to take the student further into a particular area.

Author Biography

Francis Katamba is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Lancaster. John Stonham is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle.

Table of Contents

Preface	xii
Preface to the Second Edition	xiv
Acknowledgements	xv
Abbreviations and Symbols	xvi
The International Phonetic Alphabet	xvii
PART I BACKGROUND	1	(86)
Introduction	3	(14)
The Emergence of Morphology	3	(1)
Morphology in American Structural Linguistics	3	(2)
The Concept of Chomskyan Generative Grammar	5	(9)
The place of morphology in early generative grammar	10	(2)
The morphology--phonology interaction	12	(1)
The morphology--syntax interaction	13	(1)
The morphology--semantics interface	13	(1)
The lexicon	14	(1)
Organisation of the Book	14	(3)
Introduction to Word-Structure	17	(25)
What is a Word?	17	(2)
The lexeme	17	(1)
Word-form	18	(1)
The grammatical word	19	(1)
Morphemes: The Smallest Units of Meaning	19	(16)
Analysing words	22	(1)
Morphemes, morphs and allomorphs	23	(7)
Grammatical conditioning, lexical conditioning and suppletion	30	(2)
Underlying representations	32	(3)
The Nature of Morphemes	35	(4)
Summary	39	(3)
Further Reading	40	(1)
Exercises	40	(2)
Types of Morphemes	42	(25)
Roots, Affixes, Stems and Bases	42	(6)
Roots	42	(2)
Affixes	44	(2)
Roots, stems and bases	46	(1)
Stem extenders	47	(1)
Inflectional and Derivational Morphemes	48	(6)
Multiple Affixation	54	(1)
Compounding	55	(1)
Conversion	56	(1)
Morphological Haplology	57	(1)
Morphological Typology	58	(5)
WP and the Centrality of the Word	63	(4)
Exercises	65	(2)
Productivity in Word-Formation	67	(20)
The Open-Endedness of the Lexicon	67	(8)
What is productivity?	68	(5)
Semi-productivity	73	(1)
Productivity and creativity	74	(1)
Constraints on Productivity	75	(6)
Blocking	75	(6)
Does Productivity Separate Inflection from Derivation?	81	(2)
The Nature of the Lexicon	83	(4)
Potential words	83	(1)
Knowledge of language and the role of the lexicon	84	(1)
Further Reading	85	(1)
Exercises	85	(2)
PART II MORPHOLOGY AND ITS RELATION TO PHONOLOGY	87	(134)
Introducing Lexical Morphology	89	(22)
The Lexical Phonology and Morphology Model	89	(1)
Lexical Strata	89	(15)
Derivation in lexical morphology	92	(8)
Inflection in lexical morphology	100	(4)
Lexical Rules	104	(2)
Differences between Lexical and Post-Lexical Rules	106	(5)
Further Reading	109	(1)
Exercises	109	(2)
Insights from Lexical Morphology	111	(22)
Introduction	111	(1)
Insights	111	(22)
Stratum ordering reflecting morpheme sequencing	112	(5)
Stratum ordering and productivity	117	(1)
Stratum ordering and conversion	118	(3)
The Strict Cycle Condition	121	(9)
Further Reading	130	(1)
Exercises	131	(2)
Lexical Morphology: An Appraisal	133	(21)
Introduction: The Claims Made by Lexical Phonology	133	(1)
Criticisms of Lexical Phonology	133	(18)
Are lexical strata determined by affixes rather than roots?	134	(1)
Do affixes uniquely belong to one stratum?	135	(4)
How many strata are needed?	139	(1)
Are phonological rules restricted to one stratum?	140	(2)
Are morphological rules restricted to one stratum?	142	(9)
Conclusion	151	(3)
Exercises	151	(3)
Templatic Morphology	154	(26)
Introduction	154	(1)
Phonological Prelude: Autosegmental Phonology	154	(8)
Autosegmental phonology: mapping principles	155	(5)
The skeletal tier	160	(2)
Root and Pattern Morphology	162	(15)
Arabic Binyanim	163	(2)
Prosodic morphology and non-concatenative morphology	165	(7)
The morpheme tier hypothesis	172	(5)
Conclusion	177	(3)
Exercises	178	(2)
Templatic and Prosodic Morphology	180	(24)
What is Reduplication?	180	(2)
Is Reduplication Constituent Copying?	182	(1)
CV Templates and Reduplication	183	(11)
Underspecification	184	(1)
Reduplication as prefixation	185	(4)
Reduplication as suffixation	189	(1)
Internal reduplication	190	(2)
Reduplication and fixed segmentism	192	(2)
Prosodic Morphology	194	(5)
Other Prosodic Phenomena	199	(2)
Subtractive morphology	199	(2)
English expletive infixation	201	(1)
Conclusion	201	(3)
Exercises	202	(2)
Optimality Theory and Morphology	204	(17)
Introduction	204	(1)
The Basics	204	(9)
Notation	205	(1)
The interaction of constraints	206	(7)
Morphology in Optimality Theory	213	(2)
Stratal Optimality Theory	215	(4)
Conclusion	219	(2)
Further Reading	219	(1)
Exercises	220	(1)
PART III MORPHOLOGY AND ITS RELATION TO THE LEXICON AND SYNTAX	221	(127)
Inflectional Morphology	223	(44)
Introduction	223	(1)
Inflection and Derivation	223	(14)
Differentiating between inflection and derivation	224	(5)
Relevance and generality	229	(5)
Is morphology necessary?	234	(3)
Verbal Inflectional Categories	237	(13)
Inherent verbal properties	237	(5)
Agreement properties of verbs	242	(2)
Configurational properties of verbs	244	(6)
Inflectional Categories of Nouns	250	(11)
Inherent categories of nouns	250	(3)
Agreement categories of nouns	253	(1)
Configurational categories of nouns	254	(7)
Conclusion	261	(6)
Exercises	262	(5)
Morphological Mapping of Grammatical Functions	267	(37)
Introduction
Predicates, Arguments and Lexical Entries	267	(1)
Theta-Roles and Lexical Entries	268	(6)
Grammatical Relations	274	(2)
Grammatical Function-Changing Rules	276	(11)
Passive	279	(2)
Antipassive	281	(1)
Applicative	282	(4)
Causative	286	(1)
The Mirror Principle	287	(7)
Incorporation	294	(4)
Noun incorporation	295	(1)
Verb incorporation	296	(1)
Preposition incorporation	297	(1)
Conclusion	298	(6)
Exercises	300	(4)
The Interpretation of the Lexicon, Morphology and Syntax	304	(44)
Introduction: The Interface Between Modules	304	(1)
Phonological Factors In Compounding	305	(1)
Are Compounds Different from Syntactic Phrases?	306	(9)
The notion `word' revisited	307	(1)
Listemes	308	(1)
Unlisted morphological objects	309	(1)
Syntactic objects and syntactic atoms	310	(5)
The Character of Word-Formation Rules	315	(19)
Headedness of compounds	316	(8)
The right-hand head rule (RHR)	324	(4)
Left-headed compounds	328	(3)
Headless compounds	331	(3)
Compounding and Derivation	334	(3)
Cranberry words	334	(2)
Neoclassical compounds	336	(1)
Clitics	337	(6)
Conclusion	343	(5)
Exercises	345	(3)
Glossary	348	(9)
References	357	(14)
Language Index	371	(2)
Subject Index	373	(8)
Author Index	381