Morphological Autonomy

Morphological Autonomy
Author: Martin Maiden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0199589984

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This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed arguments for the autonomy of morphology, ie morphology has phenomena and mechanisms of its own that are not reducible to syntax or phonology. But which principles and rules govern this independent component and which phenomena can be described or explicated by the mechanisms of the morphemic level? In shedding light on these questions, this volume constitutes a major contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to our understanding of the nature and importance of morphomic structure in language change in general.

The Boundaries of Pure Morphology

The Boundaries of Pure Morphology
Author: Silvio Cruschina
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199678863

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In a series of pioneering explorations of the diachrony of morphomes, this book throws new light on the nature of the morphome and the boundary - seen from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives - between what is and is not genuinely autonomous in morphology. Its findings will be of central interest to morphologists of all theoretical stripes.

The Complexities of Morphology

The Complexities of Morphology
Author: Peter Arkadiev
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192605518

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This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured. The book opens with a detailed introduction from the editors that critically assesses the foundational assumptions that inform contemporary approaches to morphological complexity. In the chapters that follow, the volume's expert contributors approach the topic from typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives; the concluding chapter offers an overview of these various approaches, with a focus on the minimum description length principle. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from both well-known languages such as Russian and lesser-studied languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.

Network Morphology

Network Morphology
Author: Dunstan Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107005744

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A study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as 'Network Morphology'.

Morphological Perspectives

Morphological Perspectives
Author: Matthew Baerman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2019-04-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1474446027

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Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.

Yearbook of Morphology 2004

Yearbook of Morphology 2004
Author: Geert E. Booij
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2006-07-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1402029004

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A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2004 a number of papers is devoted to the topic ‘morphology and linguistic typology’. These papers were presented at the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Catania, in September 2003. Within the context of this denominator, a number of issues are discussed wich bear upon universals and typology. These issues include: universals and diachrony, sign language, syncretism, periphrasis, etc.

Defaults in Morphological Theory

Defaults in Morphological Theory
Author: Nikolas Gisborne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0198712324

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This volume sets out four different default-based frameworks for describing morphology. Major proponents of these frameworks address a range of questions about the role of defaults in the lexicon, such as the place of morphology in the grammar and the challenge of meaning-form dissociations that plagues morphology.

All Things Morphology

All Things Morphology
Author: Sedigheh Moradi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2021-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027259747

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This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical points of view. These seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology. The chapters in this book elaborate on these basic themes, from the further exploration of paradigms, to studies involving words, stems, and affixes, to examinations of competition, inheritance, and defaults, to investigations of morphomes, to ways that morphology interacts with other parts of the language from phonology to sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. The editors and contributors dedicate this volume to Prof. Mark Aronoff for his profound influence on the field.

Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity

Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity
Author: Matthew Baerman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019103570X

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This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have of being complex, perhaps none is as daunting as what can be achieved by inflectional morphology: this volume examines languages such as Archi, which has a 1,000,000-form verb paradigm, and Chinantec, which has over 100 inflection classes. Alongside this complexity, inflection is notable for its variety across languages: one can take two unrelated languages and discover that they share similar syntax or phonology, but one would be hard pressed to find two unrelated languages with the same inflectional systems. In this volume, senior scholars and junior researchers highlight novel perspectives on conceptualizing morphological complexity, and offer concrete means for measuring, quantifying and analysing it. Examples are drawn from a wide range of languages, including those of North America, New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, alongside a number of European languages. The book will be a valuable resource for all those studying complexity phenomena in morphology, and for theoretical linguists more generally, from graduate level upwards.

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures
Author: Martin Maiden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521800722

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This Cambridge history is the definitive guide to the comparative history of the Romance languages. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance).