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| Preface | |
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| The International Phonetic Alphabet | |
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| Point and manner of articulation of English consonants and vowels | |
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| What is morphology? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What's a word? | |
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| Words and lexemes, types and tokens | |
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| But is it really a word? | |
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| Why do languages have morphology? | |
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| The organization of this book | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Words, dictionaries, and the mental lexicon | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why not check the dictionary? | |
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| The mental lexicon | |
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| More about dictionaries | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Lexeme formation: the familiar | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Kinds of morphemes | |
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| Affixation | |
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| Compounding | |
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| Conversion | |
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| Minor processes | |
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| How to: morphological analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Productivity and creativity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Factors contributing to productivity | |
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| Restrictions on productivity | |
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| How to: finding words | |
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| Ways of measuring productivity | |
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| Historical changes in productivity | |
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| Productivity versus creativity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Lexeme formation: further afield | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Affixes: beyond prefixes and suffixes | |
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| Internal stem change | |
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| Reduplication | |
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| Templatic morphology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Inflection | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types of inflection | |
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| Inflection in English | |
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| Paradigms | |
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| Inflection and productivity | |
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| Inherent versus contextual inflection | |
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| Inflection versus derivation revisited | |
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| How to: morphological analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Typology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Universals and particulars: a bit of linguistic history | |
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| The genius of languages: what's in your toolkit? | |
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| Ways of characterizing languages | |
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| Genetic and areal tendencies | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Words and sentences: the interface between morphology and syntax | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Argument structure and morphology | |
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| On the borders | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sounds and shapes: the interface between morphology and phonology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Allomorphs | |
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| How to: analyzing allomorphy | |
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| Lexical strata | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Theoretical challenges | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The nature of morphological rules | |
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| Lexical integrity | |
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| Blocking | |
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| Constraits on affix ordering | |
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| Bracketing paradoxes | |
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| The nature of affixal polysemy | |
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| Reprise: what's theory? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |