The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory

by Audring, Jenny; Masini, Francesca

• ISBN13: 9780192845139
• ISBN10: 0192845136
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-08-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.

Following an introduction from the editors, the first part of the volume offers critical discussions of the main theoretical issues within morphology, both in word formation and in inflection, as well as providing a short history of morphological theory. In the core part of the handbook, part II, each theory is introduced by an expert in the field, who guides the reader through its principles and technicalities, its advantages and disadvantages, and its points of agreement and disagreement with alternative theories. Chapters in part III explore the bigger picture, connecting morphological theory to other subdisciplines of linguistics, such as diachronic change, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sign language theory. The handbook is intended as a guide for morphologists from all theoretical backgrounds who want to learn more about frameworks other than their own, as well as for linguists in related subfields looking for theoretical connections with the field of morphology.

Author Biography

Jenny Audring, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Leiden University,Francesca Masini, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Bologna

Jenny Audring is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Leiden University. She specializes in morphology and has written extensively on grammatical gender. Her research interests range from linguistic complexity and Canonical Typology to Construction Morphology and morphological theory. She is the co-editor, with Sebastian Fedden and Greville G. Corbett, of Non-Canonical Gender Systems (OUP 2018) and co-author, with Ray Jackendoff, of The Texture of the Lexicon: Relational Morphology and the Parallel Architecture (OUP, 2020).

Francesca Masini is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Her research interests are in semantics, morphology and the lexicon, primarily within Construction Grammar and Construction Morphology. Her main focus is on multiword expressions, word classes, lexical typology, and the lexicon-syntax interface. She is currently Associate Editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology, a special project of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Theory and theories in morphology, Jenny Audring and Francesca Masini
PART I: Issues in morphology
2. A short history of morphological theory, Stephen R. Anderson
3. Theoretical issues in word formation, Rochelle Lieber
4. Theoretical issues in inflection, Gregory Stump
PART II: Morphological theories
5. Structuralism, Thomas Stewart
6. Early Generative Grammar, Pius ten Hacken
7. Later Generative Grammar and beyond: Lexicalism, Fabio Montermini
8. Distributed Morphology, Daniel Siddiqi
9. Minimalism in morphological theories, Antonio F?bregas
10. Optimality Theory and Prosodic Morphology, Laura J. Downing
11. Morphology in LFG and HPSG, Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler
12. Natural Morphology, Livio Gaeta
13. Word and Paradigm Morphology, James P. Blevins, Farrell Ackerman, and Robert Malouf
14. Paradigm Function Morphology, Gregory Stump
15. Network Morphology, Dunstan Brown
16. Word Grammar Morphology, Nikolas Gisborne
17. Morphology in Cognitive Grammar, Ronald W. Langacker
18. Construction Morphology, Francesca Masini and Jenny Audring
19. Relational Morphology in the Parallel Architecture, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring
20. Canonical Typology, Oliver Bond
PART III: Morphological theory and other fields
21. Morphological theory and typology, Peter Arkadiev and Marian Klamer
22. Morphological theory and creole languages, Ana R. Lu?s
23. Morphological theory and diachronic change, Matthias H?ning
24. Morphological theory and synchronic variation, Angela Ralli
25. Morphological theory and first language acquisition, Elma Blom
26. Morphological theory and second language acquisition, John Archibald and Gary Libben
27. Morphological theory and psycholinguistics, Christina Gagn? and Thomas Spalding
28. Morphological theory and neurolinguistics, Niels O. Schiller and Rinus G. Verdonschot
29. Morphological theory and computational linguistics, Vito Pirrelli
30. Morphological theory and sign languages, Donna Jo Napoli
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Index