The morphome debate / Ana Luís and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luís, Ana R., editor.

Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morphemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume examines the morpheme - a unit that is purely morphological in nature - from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. It draws on data from a range of typologically unrelated languages including Archi, German, Kayardild, Latin, Russian, Sanskrit, Selkup, Ulwa and American Sign Language.

Contents:

Unnatural kinds / Mark Aronoff

Some lessons from history: morphomes in diachrony / Martin Maiden

Morphomic splits / Greville G. Corbett

Thoughts on diagnosing morphomicity: a case study from Ulwa / Andrew Koontz-Garboden

The morphome vs. similarity-based syncretism: Latin t-stem derivatives / Donca Steriade

Morphomic categories and the realization of morphosyntactic properties / Gregory Stump

Stems, the morphome, and meaning bearing inflection / Andrew Spencer

Kayardild inflectional morphotactics is morphomic / Erich R. Round

Morphomic stem extension and the German n-declension / Paolo Acquaviva

On the distribution of stem alternants: separation and its limits / David Embick

A view of the morphome debate / Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and Ana R. Luís.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 8, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-177180-5