Format:
1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
ISBN:
1474464289
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9781474464284
Content:
An expanded and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to linguistic morphology. The text guides the reader from the very first principles of the internal structure of words through to advanced issues of current controversy
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index
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Elements smaller than the word - Inflection and derivation - Allomorphs and morphemes - Recapitulation - The Morphological Structure of Words - Word-building processes using affixes - Suffixes - Prefixes - Circumfixes - Infixes - Interfixes - Transfixes - Reduplication - Word-building by modification of the base - Relationships with no change of form - Cases involving shortening bases - Processes involving several lexemes - Alphabet-based formations - Unique morphs - Suppletion - Elaboration - Defining the Word-Form - Phonological criteria - Stress - Vowel harmony - Phonological processes - Morphological and syntactic criteria - Productivity - Productivity as a cline - Productivity as synchronic - Potential words and productivity in the individual - Blocking - Defining the productivity of a process - So-called limitations on productivity - So-called semi-productivity - Measuring productivity - Inflection and Derivation - Meaning - Derivation may cause a change of category - Inflectional affixes have a regular meaning - Inflection is productive, derivation semi-productive - Derivational affixes are nearer the root than inflectional ones - Derivatives can be replaced by monomorphemic forms - Inflection uses a closed set of affixes - Inflectional morphology is what is relevant to the syntax - A first conclusion - An alternative conclusion - What is a Morpheme? - Problems with morphemes - Some other views of the morpheme - From morpheme to morphome.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bauer, Laurie Introducing Linguistic Morphology Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2003 ISBN 9780748617043
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Author information:
Bauer, Laurie 1949-
