What is Morphology?

Mark Aronoff , Kirsten Fudeman 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2022년 10월 20일 출간

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Provides a critical introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology, fully revised and updated in a new edition What is Morphology? is a concise, student-friendly introduction to the fundamentals of contemporary morphological theory and practice. Requiring only a basic knowledge of linguistics, this popular textbook describes morphological phenomena and their interactions with phonology, syntax, and semantics while familiarizing students with the importance of linguistic morphology as a subject of research. Each chapter contains engaging examples and student-friendly explanations to support the development of the skills necessary to analyze a wealth of classic morphological problems. The third edition is fully updated to reflect the current state of the field, featuring a new chapter on morphology&'s intersections with typology and computational linguistics. Expanded coverage of morphological productivity and processing is supported by additional exercises, examples, and further reading suggestions. Thoroughly revised chapters cover essential topics including morphemes, the lexicon, phonology, inflection, syncretism, and derived lexemes. This accessible textbook: Introduces fundamental phenomena with a descriptive theme and minimal theory Uses cross-linguistic data to explain and clarify new concepts Provides new and revised chapters written by prominent experts in their respective areas Includes answers to all exercises via a companion instructor&'s websiteThe latest edition of What is Morphology? remains the ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate linguistics students, researchers and scholars unfamiliar with linguistic morphology, and professionals involved in industrial applications of linguistics such as speech recognition, natural language understanding, machine translation, text-to-speech, and natural language generation.

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Preface viii Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xiv Remarks on Transcription xvii The International Phonetic Alphabet xix About the Companion Website xx 1 Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis 1 1.1 What is Morphology? 1 1.2 Morphemes 2 1.3 Morphology in Action 4 1.4 Background and Beliefs 9 1.5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis 11 1.6 Summary 20 Introduction to Kujamaat J&o'ola 22 2 Words and Lexemes 32 2.1 What is a Word? 33 2.2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood 36 2.3 Types of Words 38 2.4 Inflection vs. Derivation 45 2.5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process 47 2.6 The Lexicon 52 2.7 Summary 54 Kujamaat J&o'ola Noun Classes 55 3 Morphology and Phonology 69 3.1 Allomorphs 70 3.2 Prosodic Morphology 74 3.3 Primary and Secondary Affixes 77 3.4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy 81 3.5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages 87 3.6 Summary 89 Kujamaat J&o'ola Morphophonology 91 4 Derivation and the Lexicon 103 4.1 The Saussurean Sign 103 4.2 Motivation and Compositionality 104 4.3 Derivation and Structure 116 4.4 Lexicalization 122 4.5 Summary 125 Derivation in Kujamaat J&o'ola 126 5 Derivation and Semantics 131 5.1 The Polysemy Problem 132 5.2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes 134 5.3 Summary 141 Derivation and Verbs in Kujamaat J&o'ola 142 6 Inflection 150 6.1 What is Inflection? 152 6.2 Inflection vs. Derivation 160 6.3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types 163 6.4 Syncretism 170 6.5 Typology 171 6.6 Summary 173 Agreement in Kujamaat J&o'ola 174 7 Morphology and Syntax 187

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저자(글) Mark Aronoff

저자(글) Kirsten Fudeman