What Is Morphology?
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- Publisher: Blackwell Pub
- Publish date: 10/15/2004
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PrefaceAbbreviations1. Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis:1.1 What is Morphology?1.2 Morphemes1.3 Morphology in Action1.4 Foundational Beliefs1.5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis1.6 SummaryIntroduction to Kujamaat J olaExercises2. Words and Lexemes:2.1 What is a Word?2.2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood2.3 Types of Words2.4 Inflection vs. Derivation2.5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process2.6 The Lexicon2.7 SummaryKujamaat J ola Noun ClassesExercises3. Morphology and Phonology:3.1 Allomorphs3.2 Prosodic Morphology3.3 Primary and Secondary Affixes3.4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy3.5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages3.6 SummaryKujamaat J ola MorphophonologyExercises4. Derivation and the Lexicon:4.1 The Saussurean Sign4.2 Motivation and Compositionality4.3 Derivation and Structure4.4 SummaryDerivation in Kujamaat J olaExercises5. Derivation and Semantics:5.1 The Polysemy Problem5.2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes5.3 SummaryDerivation and verbs in Kujamaat J olaExercises6. Inflection:6.1 What is Inflection?6.2 Inflection vs. Derivation6.3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types6.4 Syncretism6.5 Typology6.6 SummaryAgreement in Kujamaat J olaExercises7. Morphology and Syntax:7.1 Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection7.2 Structural constraints on morphological inflection7.3 Inflection and Universal Grammar7.4 Grammatical function changing7.5 SummaryKujamaat J ola verb morphologyA brief survey of Kujamaat J ola syntaxExercises8. Morphological Productivity:8.1 What is morphological productivity?8.2 Productivity and structure: Negative prefixes in English8.3 Degrees of productivity8.4 Salience and productivity8.5 Testing productivity8.6 ConclusionExercisesGlossaryReferencesIndex
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