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9780631203193

What Is Morphology?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631203193

  • ISBN10:

    0631203192

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-09-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology that equips readers with the skills to analyze a wealth of classic morphological issues. Provides a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology. Familiarizes the reader with the importance of morphology as a subject of research. Equips students with the skills to analyze a breadth of classic morphological issues through engaging narration and by direct example. Includes detailed discussion of the complex morphology of one West African language, Kujamaat Joola. features useful exercises at the end of each chapter.

Author Biography

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 at Ithaca College, and has published articles on morphology, syntax, and historical Romance linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preface viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xiv
Remarks on Transcription xvi
The International Phonetic Alphabet xviii
1 Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis 1(31)
1.1 What is Morphology?
1(1)
1.2 Morphemes
2(2)
1.3 Morphology in Action
4(5)
1.4 Background and Beliefs
9(3)
1.5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis
12(9)
1.6 Summary
21(1)
Introduction to Kujamaat Jóola
22(4)
Exercises
26(6)
2 Words and Lexemes 32(38)
2.1 What is a Word?
33(3)
2.2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood
36(3)
2.3 Types of Words
39(5)
2.4 Inflection vs. Derivation
44(2)
2.5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process
46(6)
2.6 The Lexicon
52(2)
2.7 Summary
54(2)
Kujamaat Jóola Noun Classes
56(9)
Exercises
65(5)
3 Morphology and Phonology 70(33)
3.1 Allomorphs
71(4)
3.2 Prosodic Morphology
75(3)
3.3 Primary and Secondary Affixes
78(4)
3.4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy
82(6)
3.5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages
88(2)
3.6 Summary
90(1)
Kujamaat Jóola Morphophonology
91(7)
Exercises
98(5)
4 Derivation and the Lexicon 103(25)
4.1 The Saussurean Sign
103(1)
4.2 Motivation and Compositionality
104(13)
4.3 Derivation and Structure
117(6)
4.4 Summary
123(1)
Derivation in Kujamaat Jóola
124(1)
Exercises
125(3)
5 Derivation and Semantics 128(21)
5.1 The Polysemy Problem
129(2)
5.2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes
131(8)
5.3 Summary
139(1)
Derivation and Verbs in Kujamaat Jóola
140(4)
Exercises
144(5)
6 Inflection 149(36)
6.1 What is Inflection?
151(9)
6.2 Inflection vs. Derivation
160(3)
6.3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types
163(6)
6.4 Syncretism
169(1)
6.5 Typology
170(2)
6.6 Summary
172(1)
Agreement in Kujamaat Jóola
173(5)
Exercises
178(7)
7 Morphology and Syntax 185(26)
7.1 Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection
186(1)
7.2 Structural Constraints on Morphological Inflection
187(2)
7.3 Inflection and Universal Grammar
189(2)
7.4 Grammatical Function Change
191(6)
7.5 Summary
197(1)
Kujamaat Jóola Verb Morphology
198(7)
A Brief Survey of Kujamaat Jóola Syntax
205(3)
Exercises
208(3)
8 Morphological Productivity 211(23)
8.1 What is Morphological Productivity?
212(2)
8.2 Productivity and Structure: Negative Prefixes in English
214(1)
8.3 Degrees of Productivity
215(5)
8.4 Salience and Productivity
220(1)
8.5 Testing Productivity
221(8)
8.6 Conclusion
229(1)
Exercises
230(4)
Glossary 234(10)
References 244(6)
Index 250

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