| Author | : Matthew Baerman |
| Publisher | : British Academy |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2007-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
This collection of essays by leading linguists on the theory and typology of mismatches between syntax and morphology will establish the important role that research on deponency has to play in contemporary linguistics, and set the standard for future work.
| Author | : Franz Rainer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2014-02-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027270937 |
The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is followed by three articles derived from the plenaries that are dedicated to fundamental issues such as the relationship between morphological meaning and concepts, between word formation and meaning change, as well as indirect coding. The section papers tackle a wide array of issues, including affixal polysemy, pathways of grammaticalization, the processing of compounds, mismatches between form and meaning, synonymy avoidance, or the semantics of specific patterns of noun incorporation, compounding, reduplication and mimetic verbs.
| Author | : Andrew Hippisley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1442 |
| Release | : 2016-11-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316712451 |
The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.
| Author | : Dunstan Brown |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2012-02-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107378109 |
Morphology is particularly challenging, because it is pervaded by irregularity and idiosyncrasy. This book is a study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as 'Network Morphology'. It describes the systems of rules which determine the structure of words by construing irregularity as a matter of degree, using examples from a diverse range of languages and phenomena to illustrate. Many languages share common word building strategies and many diverge in interesting ways. These strategies can be understood by distinguishing different notions of 'default'. The Network Morphology philosophy promotes the use of computational implementation to check theories. The accompanying website provides the computer coded version of the Network Morphology model of word structure for readers to test, customize and develop. This book will be a valuable contribution to the fields of linguistic typology and morphology and will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students in these areas.
| Author | : Cerstin Mahlow |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2011-08-19 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3642231373 |
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2011, held in Zurich, Switzerland in August 2011. The eight revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The papers address various topics in computational morphology and the relevance of morphology to computational linguistics more broadly.
| Author | : Franz Rainer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2010-02-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027288526 |
The papers in this volume derive from the 13th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2008). They all address the main topic of the meeting, viz. variation and change in morphology. Inflectional and derivational morphology are represented on equal terms. The focus is on cases of language-internal variation, such as pattern competition, base variation, form–function mismatches, or morphological pleonasm. Other recurring themes are language contact as a cause of variation, the output-orientedness of morphological patterns, and linguistic economy.The contributions cover a wide variety of languages, both Indo-European (Romance, Germanic and Slavic; Latin, Lithuanian and Romani) and non-Indo-European (Hungarian, Maay, Chinese).
| Author | : Jenny Audring |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total 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...
| Author | : Peter Arkadiev |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2020-09-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0192605518 |
This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured. The book opens with a detailed introduction from the editors that critically assesses the foundational assumptions that inform contemporary approaches to morphological complexity. In the chapters that follow, the volume's expert contributors approach the topic from typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives; the concluding chapter offers an overview of these various approaches, with a focus on the minimum description length principle. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from both well-known languages such as Russian and lesser-studied languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
| Author | : Darya Kavitskaya |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2024-02-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0192845810 |
This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. Historical linguistics does not solely focus on reconstructing a language's linguistic past and exploring the mechanisms underlying previous language changes; it also addresses broader questions concerning the development and ongoing evolution of language. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite, Proto-Turkic, and Proto-Bantu, and from present-day languages including Akan, Cantonese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Selis-Ql'ispé, Nivaclé, and Spanish. The contributions showcase current research in historical linguistics and exemplify the dynamism and inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field.
