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What is Morphology? Mark Aronoff

What is Morphology? By Mark Aronoff

What is Morphology? by Mark Aronoff

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Presents an introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology. This book equips students with the skills to analyze a breadth of classic morphological issues through engaging narration and by direct example. It includes discussion of the complex morphology of one West African language, Kujamaat Joola.

What is Morphology? Summary

What is Morphology? by Mark Aronoff

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. It provides a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology. It familiarizes the reader with the importance of morphology as a subject of research. It equips students with the skills to analyze a breadth of classic morphological issues through engaging narration and by direct example. It includes detailed discussion of the complex morphology of one West African language, Kujamaat Joola. It features useful exercises at the end of each chapter.

What is Morphology? Reviews

Aronoff and Fudeman have provided an extremely pleasant tour of the issues in modern morphological theory for beginning students. The rich collection of exercises will be a godsend to instructors and students alike, and the thread of discussion of a single language throughout the book is a brilliant stroke that other texts should emulate. Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University This unusual book combines a basic start on morphology with an introduction to Kujamaat Joola. It is a fine addition to teaching materials on morphology: a book for beginners to use with a teacher, yet one from which any linguist could learn. The authors intend students to develop 'a lasting taste for morphology'. I think many will. Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, Guildford Morphology has its own organizing principles, distinct from those of syntax, phonology, and the lexicon. Too many morphology textbooks obscure this fascinating fact, but Aronoff and Fudeman refreshingly make it the cornerstone of their exposition. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury

About Mark Aronoff

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.Abbreviations.1. Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis:.1.1 What is Morphology?.1.2 Morphemes.1.3 Morphology in Action.1.4 Foundational Beliefs.1.5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis.1.6 Summary.Introduction to Kujamaat Joola.Exercises.2. Words and Lexemes:.2.1 What is a Word?.2.2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood.2.3 Types of Words.2.4 Inflection vs. Derivation.2.5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process.2.6 The Lexicon.2.7 Summary.Kujamaat Joola Noun Classes.Exercises.3. Morphology and Phonology:.3.1 Allomorphs.3.2 Prosodic Morphology.3.3 Primary and Secondary Affixes.3.4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy.3.5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages.3.6 Summary.Kujamaat Joola Morphophonology.Exercises.4. Derivation and the Lexicon:.4.1 The Saussurean Sign.4.2 Motivation and Compositionality.4.3 Derivation and Structure.4.4 Summary.Derivation in Kujamaat Joola.Exercises.5. Derivation and Semantics:.5.1 The Polysemy Problem.5.2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes.5.3 Summary.Derivation and verbs in Kujamaat Joola.Exercises.6. Inflection:.6.1 What is Inflection?.6.2 Inflection vs. Derivation.6.3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types.6.4 Syncretism.6.5 Typology.6.6 Summary.Agreement in Kujamaat Joola.Exercises.7. Morphology and Syntax:.7.1 Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection.7.2 Structural constraints on morphological inflection.7.3 Inflection and Universal Grammar.7.4 Grammatical function changing.7.5 Summary.Kujamaat Joola verb morphology.A brief survey of Kujamaat Joola syntax.Exercises.8. Morphological Productivity:.8.1 What is morphological productivity?.8.2 Productivity and structure: Negative prefixes in English.8.3 Degrees of productivity.8.4 Salience and productivity.8.5 Testing productivity.8.6 Conclusion.Exercises.Glossary.References.Index

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GOR005290146
9780631203193
0631203192
What is Morphology? by Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff
Fundamentals of Linguistics
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20040817
280
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