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Assuming only the most basic background in linguistics, What is Morphology? provides a concise, critical introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology. Designed to familiarize beginning students and specialists alike with the importance of morphology as a subject of research, this reader-friendly volume moves organically from the morphological ""facts of everyday life"" to important relationships with phonology, syntax, and semantics. What is Morphology? equips readers with the skills to analyze a wealth of classic morphological issues through engaging narration and by direct example. This includes detailed discussion of the complex morphology of one West African language, Kujamaat Joola, and many useful exercises at the ends of the chapters.

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""Aronoff and Fudeman have provided an extremely pleasant tour of the issues in modern morphological theory for beginning students. The rich collection of exercises will be a godsend to instructors and students alike, and the thread of discussion of a single language throughout the book is a brilliant stroke that other texts should emulate."" Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University ""This unusual book combines a basic start on morphology with an introduction to Kujamaat Joola. It is a fine addition to teaching materials on morphology: a book for beginners to use with a teacher, yet one from which any linguist could learn. The authors intend students to develop 'a lasting taste for morphology'. I think many will."" Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, Guildford ""Morphology has its own organizing principles, distinct from those of syntax, phonology, and the lexicon. Too many morphology textbooks obscure this fascinating fact, but Aronoff and Fudeman refreshingly make it the cornerstone of their exposition."" Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury

"""Aronoff and Fudeman have provided an extremely pleasant tour of the issues in modern morphological theory for beginning students. The rich collection of exercises will be a godsend to instructors and students alike, and the thread of discussion of a single language throughout the book is a brilliant stroke that other texts should emulate."" Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University ""This unusual book combines a basic start on morphology with an introduction to Kujamaat Joola. It is a fine addition to teaching materials on morphology: a book for beginners to use with a teacher, yet one from which any linguist could learn. The authors intend students to develop 'a lasting taste for morphology'. I think many will."" Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, Guildford ""Morphology has its own organizing principles, distinct from those of syntax, phonology, and the lexicon. Too many morphology textbooks obscure this fascinating fact, but Aronoff and Fudeman refreshingly make it the cornerstone of their exposition."" Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury"

Aronoff and Fudeman have provided an extremely pleasant tour of the issues in modern morphological theory for beginning students. The rich collection of exercises will be a godsend to instructors and students alike, and the thread of discussion of a single language throughout the book is a brilliant stroke that other texts should emulate. Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University This unusual book combines a basic start on morphology with an introduction to Kujamaat Joola. It is a fine addition to teaching materials on morphology: a book for beginners to use with a teacher, yet one from which any linguist could learn. The authors intend students to develop 'a lasting taste for morphology'. I think many will. Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, Guildford Morphology has its own organizing principles, distinct from those of syntax, phonology, and the lexicon. Too many morphology textbooks obscure this fascinating fact, but Aronoff and Fudeman refreshingly make it the cornerstone of their exposition. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury

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Mark Aronoff is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and served as editor of the journal Language from 1995 to 2000. He is co-editor, with Janie Rees-Miller, of The Handbook of Linguistics (Blackwell 2001). Kirsten Fudeman is Professor of Linguistics and French at Ithaca College, and has published articles on morphology, syntax, and historical Romance linguistics.

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