A-Morphous Morphology presents a new theory of the structure of words, as it relates to a full generative grammar of language. It rejects the notion that complex words are built up by concatenating simple minimal signs or morphemes, and proposes instead that word structure is described by a system of rule-governed relations between one word and another. In his book, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson offers a discussion of the implications of his own original position for issues in language change, language typology and the computational analysis of word structure.
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."..the discussions are well conducted: the line of argument and its relationships with the data on the one hand--which come from a variety of languages--and theoretical constructions on the other is clear and leaves little unassumed. ... Any linguist dealing with words should read this book: it gives a good idea of the state morphology has arrived at in the Chomskyan framework and the problems it will have to address, and it is more than likely to stimulate anyone's reflection on the fundamentals of that discipline." Canadian Journal of Linguistics
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Rejecting the notion that complex words are built up by linking simple minimal signs or morphemes, this study proposes instead that word structure should be described by a system of rule-governed relations between one word and another.
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The object of study in morphology is the structure of words, and the ways in which their structure reflects their relation to other words - relations both within some larger construction such as a sentence and across the total vocabulary of the language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
been morphologized, derived environment condition, morphosyntactic representation, word formation rules, tier conflation, simple clitics, derivational concepts, special clitics, bracket erasure, ergative morphology, phrasal properties, internal constituent structure, internal morphological structure, inflectional material, synchronic morphology, derivational rules, velar softening, morphological objects, lexical phonology, paradigmatic space, phrasal syntax, affixed words, inflectional rules, phonological material, phonological content Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Noun Phrase, Affix Ordering Generalization, Lexicalist Hypothesis, Word Structure Rules, Old English, Co-referential Version Object Deletion, Standard Theory, Projection Principle, Old High German, Singular Plural Nom, Complex Symbols, English Adjectives, New Guinea, Old Georgian New!
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The object of study in morphology is the structure of words, and the ways in which their structure reflects their relation to other words - relations both within some larger construction such as a sentence and across the total vocabulary of the language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
been morphologized, derived environment condition, morphosyntactic representation, word formation rules, tier conflation, simple clitics, derivational concepts, special clitics, bracket erasure, ergative morphology, phrasal properties, internal constituent structure, internal morphological structure, inflectional material, synchronic morphology, derivational rules, velar softening, morphological objects, lexical phonology, paradigmatic space, phrasal syntax, affixed words, inflectional rules, phonological material, phonological content Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Noun Phrase, Affix Ordering Generalization, Lexicalist Hypothesis, Word Structure Rules, Old English, Co-referential Version Object Deletion, Standard Theory, Projection Principle, Old High German, Singular Plural Nom, Complex Symbols, English Adjectives, New Guinea, Old Georgian New!
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- Historical Morphology (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs) by Fisiak in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar by Gerald Gazdar on page 104, page 107, and Back Matter
- Autosegmental Phonology by John Goldsmith on page 56, and Back Matter
- Language Sound Structure by Mark Aronoff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Formal Syntax by Culicover in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Yearbook of Morphology 2005 (Yearbook of Morphology) by Geert Booij on 5 pages
- Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition (Oxford Linguistics) by Joost Dekkers on 4 pages
- Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (Language, Speech, and Communication) by Géraldine Legendre on page 238, page 274, and page 504
- Inflectional Morphology: A Theory of Paradigm Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Gregory T. Stump in Front Matter, page 57, and Back Matter
- Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory by Bruce Hayes on page 84, and Back Matter
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