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What Is Morphology?

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ISBN-10: 1405194677

ISBN-13: 9781405194679

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Mark Aronoff, Kirsten Fudeman

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List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 11/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Mark Aronoff is Chairman of the Linguistics Department at SUNY, Stony Brook and the author of Word Formation in Generative Grammar (MIT Press, 1976).

#60;b#62;Mark Aronoff#60;/b#62; is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University (SUNY). He is co-editor, with Janie Rees-Miller, of #60;i#62;The Handbook of Linguistics#60;/i#62; (Wiley-Blackwell 2001), and served as editor of the journal #60;i#62;Language#60;/i#62; from 1995 to 2000.#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Kirsten Fudeman#60;/b#62; is Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of #60;i#62;Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities#60;/i#62; (2010).

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Remarks on Transcription
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis
What is Morphology?
Morphemes
Morphology in Action
Background and Beliefs
Introduction to Morphological Analysis
Summary
Introduction to Kujamaat J�ola
Further Reading
Exercises
Words and Lexemes
What is a Word?
Empirical Tests for Wordhood
Types of Words
Inflection vs. Derivation
Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process
The Lexicon
Summary
Kujamaat J�ola Noun Classes
Further Reading
Exercises
Morphology and Phonology
Allomorphs
Prosodic Morphology
Primary and Secondary Affixes
Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy
Morphophonology and Secret Languages
Summary
Kujamaat J�ola Morphophonology
Further Reading
Exercises
Derivation and the Lexicon
The Saussurean Sign
Motivation and Compositionality
Derivation and Structure
Summary
Derivation in Kujamaat J�ola
Further Reading
Exercises
Derivation and Semantics
The Polysemy Problem
The Semantics of Derived Lexemes
Summary
Derivation and Verbs in Kujamaat J�ola
Further Reading
Exercises
Inflection
What is Inflection?
Inflection vs. Derivation
Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types
Syncretism
Typology
Summary
Agreement in Kujamaat J�ola
Further Reading
Exercises
Morphology and Syntax
Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection
Structural Constraints on Morphological Inflection
Inflection and Universal Grammar
Grammatical Function Change
Summary
Kujamaat J�ola Verb Morphology
A Brief Survey of Kujamaat J�ola Syntax
Further Reading
Exercises
Morphological Productivity and the Mental Lexicon
What is Morphological Productivity?
Productivity and Structure: Negative Prefixes in English
Degrees of Productivity
Salience and Productivity
Testing Productivity
The Mental Lexicon, Psycholinguistics, and Neurolinguistics
Conclusion
Further Reading
Exercises
Glossary
References
Index