Author: Gregory T. Stump
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: structure, paradigm, theory, morphology, inflectional
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0521780470
ISBN-13: 9780521780476

A new contribution to linguistic theory, this book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language. It sets forth the network of hypotheses constituting Paradigm Function Morphology, a theory of inflectional form. The book differs from other recent works on the same subject in that it treats inflectional morphology as an autonomous system of principles rather than as a subsystem of syntax or phonology and it draws on evidence from a diverse range of languages in motivating the proposed conception of word structure.

Author: Mark Aronoff
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: linguistic, inquiry, monographs, classes, inflectional, itself, stems, morphology
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-12-02
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0262510723
ISBN-13: 9780262510721

Most recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely morphological phenomena and has focused instead on interface questions, such as the relation between morphology and syntax or between morphology and phonology. In this monograph Mark Aronoff argues that linguists must consider morphology by itself, not merely as an appendage of syntax and phonology, and that linguistic theory must allow for a separate and autonomous morphological component.Following a general int

Author: Philippe Prévost
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: acquisition, language, disorders, bilingualism, syntax, morphology, french, development, inflectional
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2009-12-15
List price: $173.00
ISBN-10: 9027253129
ISBN-13: 9789027253125