Canonical Morphology and Syntax
Title | Canonical Morphology and Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Dunstan Brown |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199604320 |
This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which language-specific instances can be placed. In this way, the issue of fit becomes a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal. Drawing on the expertise of world class scholars in the field, the book addresses the issue of cross-linguistic comparability, illustrates the range of areas - from morphosyntactic features to reported speech - to which linguists are currently applying this methodology, and explores to what degree the approach succeeds in discovering the elusive canon of linguistic phenomena.
Canonical Syntax and Morphology
Title | Canonical Syntax and Morphology PDF eBook |
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Release | 2013 |
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Morphological Complexity
Title | Morphological Complexity PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Baerman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2017-06-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108210589 |
Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general systems of meaning and function that govern a language, yielding inflection classes and arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is what we call morphological complexity. Manipulating the forms of words requires learning a whole new system of structures and relationships. This book confronts the typological challenge of characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied to such heterogeneous systems.
The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Audring |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 751 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199668981 |
Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Construction Morphology...
Morphological Perspectives
Title | Morphological Perspectives PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Baerman |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2019-04-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1474446027 |
Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.
Morphology and Syntax
Title | Morphology and Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | John Albert Bickford |
Publisher | Sil International, Global Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998-02-16 |
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ISBN | 9781556715341 |
In this expansion of work by John Daly, Larry Lyman, and Mary Rhodes, Albert Bickford shares his enthusiasm for languages and linguistics with the reader by presenting a practical guide for acquiring skills necessary to analyze the morphology and syntax of languages around the world. Written in an informal, personal style, this is a practical book for teacher and student alike, a rich storehouse of references and helps in addition to the theoretical content drawn broadly from work within generative grammar. Most chapters begin with a statement of goals and a list of prerequisites for understanding the information contained in them. Examples and explanatory diagrams are distributed liberally throughout the text. The review of key terms, questions for analysis, and sample descriptions which appear at the end of most chapters help the student to apply the theoretical material. References for further reading are provided for those wishing to study further. Dr. Bickford serves in Tucson, Arizona, as a linguistic consultant with the Summer Institute of Linguistics, teaching and advising language workers who are investigating the languages of Mexico. Most summers he teaches the course from which this book developed at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota, and directs the University's graduate program in linguistics.
The Texture of the Lexicon
Title | The Texture of the Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Jackendoff |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | 0198827903 |
This volume offers a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory through the lens of morphology, crucially collapsing the distinction between the lexicon and the grammar. This approach accounts for both productive and non-productive morphological phenomena, and moreover integrates linguistic theory into psycholinguistics and human cognition.