Morphology and Its Interfaces
Title | Morphology and Its Interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Galani |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902725561X |
One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls together research into Morphology and its interfaces from researchers employing a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: Morphology is a diverse field, and rather than aiming to collect works sharing a particular approach or framework of assumptions, this collection instead captures the diversity and provides an overview of the state of the research field while also addressing particular empirical phenomena with up-to-date analyses. The articles collected provide case studies from a diverse variety of languages revealing properties of the interfaces that morphology shares with syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon, while the volume's inclusive cross-theoretical approach will serve to introduce readers to the findings of alternative frameworks and methodologies.
Morphology and Its Interfaces
Title | Morphology and Its Interfaces PDF eBook |
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Pages | 352 |
Release | 2014 |
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Special Issue Morphology and Its Interfaces
Title | Special Issue Morphology and Its Interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Dany Amiot |
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Pages | 167 |
Release | 2014 |
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All Things Morphology
Title | All Things Morphology PDF eBook |
Author | Sedigheh Moradi |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2021-08-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027259747 |
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.
The Morphology of Chinese
Title | The Morphology of Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome L. Packard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2000-08-03 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1139431668 |
This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and cognitive nature of Chinese words. It shows that Chinese, far from being 'morphologically impoverished', has a different morphological system because it selects different 'settings' on parameters shared by all languages. The analysis of Chinese word formation therefore enhances our understanding of word universals. Packard describes the intimate relationship between words and their components, including how the identities of Chinese morphemes are word-driven, and offers new insights into the evolution of morphemes based on Chinese data. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech, showing that much of what native speakers know about words occurs innately in the form of a hard-wired, specifically linguistic 'program' in the brain.
Voice at the interfaces
Title | Voice at the interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Itamar Kastner |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 286 |
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Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961102570 |
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax but has systematic interfaces with the phonology and the semantics. Concretely, the monograph argues for a specific formal system centered around possible values of the head Voice. The formal assumptions are as similar as possible to those made in work on non-Semitic languages. The first part of the book (four chapters) is devoted to Hebrew; the second part (two chapters) compares the current theory with other approaches to Voice and argument structure in the recent literature.
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Gillian Ramchand |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 686 |
Release | 2007-02-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199247455 |
'The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces' explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. This book shows how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication.