Current Morphology

by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

Overview

This book aims to provide a thorough and wide-ranging introduction to approaches to morphology in linguistic theory over the last twenty years. This comprehensive survey concentrates not only on the generative linguistic mainstream, but on approaches that are less fashionable or relatively unknown to English-speaking linguists, and highlights recent European, particularly German-speaking research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134984169
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/10/2002
Series:	Linguistic Theory Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy teaches linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of Allomorphy in Inflexion and is a regular contributor to linguistic journals.

Table of Contents

Part I INTRODUCTION 1 Aims and scope 2 Morphology and the lexicon Part II THE CHOMSKYAN IMPETUS IN MORPHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 3 Morphology and phonology 4 Morphology and syntax Part III OTHER IMPETUSES IN MORPHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 5 Typological and diachronic issues 6 Meaning-based approaches to morphology 7 Morphosyntactic properties and their realisation 8 Natural Morphology and related approaches Part IV CONCLUSIONS 9 What morphology can contribute to general linguistic theory

Editorial Reviews

'It's a superb summary and guide to the literature, as well as being elegantly and clearly argued: the chapter on typology is as good as I can imagine a chapter being.' - Roger Lass, University of Capetown, South Africa

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