The Evolution of Morphology
Author:   Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   No. 14
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9780199202683


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   14 January 2010
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Author:   Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   No. 14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780199202683


ISBN 10:   0199202680
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   14 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Design in Language and Design in Biology 2: Why There is Morphology: Traditional Accounts 3: A Cognitive-Articulatory Dilemma 4: Modes of Synonymy Avoidance 5: The Ancestors of Affixes 6: The Ancestors of Stem Alternants 7: Derivation, Compounding, and Lexical Storage 8: Morphological homonymy and Morphological Meanings 9: Conclusions

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Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has a BA (Hons) in Literae Humaniores from Oxford and a PhD on inflectional morphology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In 1969 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and from 1969 to 1972 he was in the linguistics PhD program at MIT. His books include Allomorphy in Inflexion (Croom Helm, 1987), Current Morphology (Routledge 1992), The Origins of Complex Language (OUP, 1999), and An Introduction to English Morphology (EUP 2002).

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