A-morphous morphology / Stephen R. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Stephen R.

Series:

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 62.

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Summary:

In A-Morphous Morphology, Stephen Anderson presents a theory of word structure which relates to a full generative grammar of language. He holds word structure to be the result of interacting principles from a number of grammatical areas, and thus not localized in a single morphological component. Dispensing with classical morphemes, the theory instead treats morphology as a matter of rule-governed relations, minimizing the non-phonological internal structure assigned to words and eliminating morphologically motivated boundary elements. Professor Anderson makes the further claim that the properties of individual lexical items are not visible to, or manipulated by, the rules of the syntax, and assimilates to morphology special clitic phenomena. A-Morphous Morphology maintains significant distinctions between inflection, derivation, and compounding, in terms of their place in a grammar. It also contains discussion of the implications of this new A-Morphous position for issues of language change, language typology, and the computational analysis of word structure.

Contents:

1 The study of word structure 7

1.1 How are words composed? 9

1.2 The nature of words 17

2 Why have a morphology at all? 22

2.1 Morphology and syntax in K[superscript w]ak[superscript w']ala 23

2.2 Morphology vs. syntax in general 37

2.3 Morphology vs. phonology 42

3 Is morphology really about morphemes? 48

3.1 Classical morphemes 48

3.2 Classical problems with morphemes 51

3.3 Generalizing the structure of the morpheme 56

3.4 Items vs. processes in morphology 59

3.5 Word-based vs. morpheme-based morphology 69

4 The interaction of morphology and syntax 73

4.1 What is inflection? 74

4.2 Morphosyntactic Representations 85

5 The theory of inflection 102

5.1 Agreement 103

5.2 The assignment of configurational properties 118

5.3 Deriving the phonological form of inflected words 122

6 Some complex inflectional systems 136

6.1 Georgian Verb agreement 137

6.2 Potawatomi inflectional morphology 156

Appendix Summary of Potawatomi rules 177

7 Morphology in the lexicon: derivation 180

7.1 The lexicon 180

7.2 Derivational rules 184

7.3 Productivity and lexicalization 195

8 Clitics are phrasal affixes 198

8.1 The nature of clitics 199

8.2 The nature of affixes 205

8.3 Clitics as phrase-level morphology 210

8.4 The formal expression of 'clitic placement' 216

9 The relation of morphology to phonology 224

9.1 Boundary elements in phonological theory 227

9.2 The interaction of morphology and phonology 249

10 How much structure do words have? 256

10.1 Eliminating word-internal structure 256

10.2 Possible motivations for word-internal structure 261

11 Composites: words with internal structure 292

11.1 Compounds and their structure 294

11.2 Generalizing the notion of 'compound' 299

11.3 Word-internal structure and theories of the lexicon 305

11.4 The notion 'head of a word' 310

12 Morphology and the typology of languages 320

12.1 Goals of a morphological typology of languages 320

12.2 Sapir's typology of word structure 325

13 Morphological change 336

13.1 Morphological change and synchronic morphology 337

13.2 The morphologization of phonological rules 339

13.3 The morphologization of syntactic structures 346

13.4 Analogy, or changes in morphological rules 365

14 Morphology as a computational problem 373

14.1 Reasons to study morphology as parsing 373

14.2 Approaches to computational morphology 376

14.3 Some general problems 387

14.4 Alternatives to existing approaches 393.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-416) and index.

ISBN:

0521372607

0521378664

OCLC:

24173561