Theoretical morphology : approaches in modern linguistics / edited by Michael Hammond, Michael Noonan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hammond, Michael, 1957-

Noonan, Michael (Michael P.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Academic Press, [1988]

Summary:

Theoretical Morphology provides a comprehensive and coherent treatment of contemporary morphological research and theory. A variety of theoretical paradigms are reviewed and illustrated by specific topics of debate within the field. The twenty-one chapters are divided into sections on inflection, function, historical/area studies, mapping to other components, and morphophonology.

Contents:

1. Morphology in the Generative Paradigm / Michael Hammond, Michael Noonan 1

1. Inflection

2. Inflection / Stephen R. Anderson 23

3. On the Role of Inflectional Morphology in Agrammatism / Ria de Bleser, Josef Bayer 45

4. Nonconcatenative Inflection and Paradigm Economy / Andrew Carstairs 71

5. The Split Morphology Hypothesis: Evidence from Yiddish / David M. Perlmutter 79

6. Are Inflected Forms Stored in the Lexicon? / Joseph Paul Stemberger, Brian MacWhinney 101

2. Rules and Representations

7. Morphology as Lexical Organization / Joan L. Bybee 119

8. Preferences vs. Strict Universals in Morphology: Word-Based Rules / Wolfgang U. Dressler 143

9. Zero Derivation and the Overt Analogue Criterion / Gerald Sanders 155

3. Historical/Areal Studies

10. Prefixation in Kannada / Mark Aronoff, S. N. Sridhar 179

11. The How and Why of Diachronic Morphologization and Demorphologization / Brian D. Joseph, Richard D. Janda 193

12. Lexical Categories and the Evolution of Number Marking / Marianne Mithun 211

13. On the Mechanisms of Morphological Change / Dieter Stein 235

4. Mapping to Other Components

14. Clitics, Morphological Merger, and the Mapping to Phonological Structure / Alec Marantz 253

15. The Autolexical Classification of Lexemes / Jerrold M. Sadock 271

16. On Anaphoric Islandhood / Richard Sproat 291

5. Morphophonology

17. On the Nature of Internal Reduplication / Stuart Davis 305

18. Blocking and the Elsewhere Condition / Gregory K. Iverson, Deirdre W. Wheeler 325

19. Bidirectional Foot Construction as a Window on Level Ordering / Juliette Levin 339

20. Tone and the Morphemic Tier Hypothesis / Douglas Pulleyblank 353

21. Continuant Voicing in Slave (Northern Athapaskan): The Cyclic Application of Default Rules / Keren Rice 371.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

0123220459

0123220467

OCLC:

18106533