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Author:   Antonio Fbregas ,  Sergio Scalise
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780748643134

ISBN 10:   0748643133
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Foreword; 1. Morphology: definitions and basic concepts; 1.1. What is morphology?; 1.1.1. Its object of study; 1.1.2. Morphology's place in grammar; 1.1.3. Differences between the lexicon and morphology; 1.2. Classes of morphemes; 1.2.1. Classes of affixes; 1.3. Subdivisions of morphology; 1.3.1. Inflection; 1.3.2. Word formation: derivation and compounding; 1.4. The spell out of morphemes; 1.4.1. Allomorphy; 1.5. Productivity; 2. Morphological units; 2.1. Morphemes; 2.2. Words; 2.3. The debate on the existence of morphemes; 2.3.1. Replacive and substractive morphology; 2.3.2. Mismatches between grammatical features and their exponents; 2.3.3. Cranberry morphemes; 2.3.4. Priscianic word formation; 2.3.5. Paradigmatic motivation of meaning; 2.4. Other units; 2.4.1. Roots and stems; 2.4.2. Constructions 2.4.3. Templates; 2.5. Correlations between morphemes and morphs and morphological typology; 3. Morphological structures; 3.1. The motivation for morphological structures; 3.1.1. Evidence in favour of word internal structure; 3.2. The properties of morphological structures; 3.2.1. The concept of head; 3.2.2. The position of the head; 3.2.3. Binary branching; 3.3. Arguments against morphological structures; 3.3.1. A-morphous morphology; 3.3.2. Exocentricity; 3.3.3. Bracketing paradoxes; 3.3.4. Double base; 3.3.5. Parasynthesis; 4. Inflectional processes; 4.1. Properties of inflection; 4.2. Inflection and grammatical categories; 4.2.1. A comparison of five languages; 4.2.2. Non-inflected categories: prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs; 4.3. Desinences and theme vowels in grammar; 4.3.1. The status of gender and the notion of desinence; 4.3.2. Theme vowels; 4.4. Paradigms; 4.4.1. Syncretism; 4.4.2. Defectivity; 4.4.3. Suppletion; 4.4.4. Patterns of irregularity; 5. Derivational processes; 5.1. Properties of derivation; 5.2. Category changes; 5.2.1. Nominalisations; 5.2.2.Verbalisations; 5.2.3. Adjectivalisations; 5.3. Semantic changes; 5.4. Category change without formal marking: conversion; 5.5. Argument structure changes; 5.5.1. Lexical alternations; 5.6. Questions raised by the analysis of derivational processes in a single language; 5.7. The limits between inflection and derivation; 5.7.1. Appreciative morphology; 5.7.2. Hybrid categories; 6. Compounding: Other word formation processes; 6.1. Properties of compounds; 6.2. Basic classes of compounds; 6.2.1. Classes according to the relation established between the two elements; 6.2.2. Synthetic compounds; 6.2.3. Parasynthetic compounds; 6.2.4. Co-compounds; 6.3. Compounding between syntax and morphology; 6.3.1. Some differences between phrases and compounds; 6.3.2. Intermediate cases; 6.4. Compounds and grammatical categories: Japanese and English; 6.5. Other word-formation processes; 6.5.1. Clipping; 6.5.2. Reduplication; 6.5.3. Acronymy; 6.5.4. Blending; 7. Relations between morphology and syntax; 7.1. The place of morphology in grammar: Lexicalism and Constructionism; 7.1.1. Lexicalist theories; 7.1.2. Constructionism; 7.2. The Generalised Lexicalist Hypothesis: data; 7.2.1. Syntactic material inside words: the No Phrase Constraint; 7.2.2. Non-morphological processes and the internal structure of words; 7.2.3. Absence of movement and the theory of syntactic domains; 7.2.4. Absence of coreference to word-internal constituents; 7.3. The relation between syntax and morphology in diachrony: morphologisation; 8. Morphology's relation with phonology and semantics; 8.1. Restrictions imposed by phonology to morphology; 8.2. The phonological materialisation of morphemes; 8.2.1. Morphology and phonology feed each other: Lexical Strata; 8.2.2. Morphology is independent from phonology: the Separation Hypothesis; 8.2.3. Morphology precedes phonology: the Late Insertion Hypothesis; 8.2.4. Post-syntactic morphological operations in Distributed Morphology; 8.3. Accounting for allomorphs: localism and globalism; 8.4. The linearization of morphological structure: the order of morphemes; 8.4.1. Syntactic accounts; 8.4.2. Semantic accounts; 8.4.3. Purely morphological accounts; 8.4.4. Phonological accounts; 8.4.5. Parsing-based accounts; 8.5. The meaning of words and affixes; 8.5.1. The meaning of units is decomposable; 8.5.2. Semantic atomicity; 8.5.3. Do affixes have a meaning of their own?; 8.6. Compositionality and demotivation of meaning; 8.6.1. The demotivation of meaning; 8.6.2. Dividing structures and concepts: two types of meaning; 8.6.3. How to represent demotivation; Answers to the exercises; References; Subject index.

Reviews

A precious guide to the meandering paths of morphological analysis. The ideal textbook for encouraging advanced students to question the issues of morphological units and the relation of morphology to other linguistic fields. A critical eye to the most recent theoretical approaches of word structure. This volume should be an essential part of any graduate course in morphology.--Angela Ralli, University of Patras This book presents a welcome and balanced survey of present-day morphological theories for advanced students of morphology. The authors provide helpful guidance in the analysis of various morphological data and the related theoretical issues that play a role in the present debate on morphology and its place in the architecture of grammar.--Geert Booij, Leiden University

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Antonio Fabregas is Full Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Tromso. He took his Ph.D. in Madrid in 2005. He has worked extensively on the morphology of Romance languages and has also published papers on syntax, semantics and phonology. Sergio Scalise is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bologna. He has worked exstensively on theoretical morphology and on morphology of Italian. He is director of the Journal ""Lingue e Linguaggio"" and co-organizer of the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings. He has given courses, seminars and lectures in several universities (Madrid, Barcelona, Girona, Paris, Cambridge, Hamburg, Vienna, Tokyo, New York, Amsterdam, Rome, Budapest, etc.).

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