Half-title Page
Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
1 Morphology: Definitions and Basic Concepts
1.1 What Is Morphology?
1.1.1 Its Object of Study
1.1.2 Morphologyβs Place in Grammar
1.1.3 Differences between the Lexicon and Morphology
1.2 Classes of Morphemes
1.2.1 Classes of Affixes
1.3 Subdivisions of Morphology
1.3.1 Inflection
1.3.2 Word Formation: Derivation and Compounding
1.4 The Spell-Out of Morphemes
1.4.1 Allomorphy
1.5 Productivity
Exercises
Further Reading
2 Morphological Units
2.1 Morphemes
2.2 Words
2.3 The Debate on the Existence of Morphemes
2.3.1 Replacive and Substractive Morphology
2.3.2 Mismatches between Grammatical Features and their Exponents
2.3.3 Cranberry Morphemes
2.3.4 Priscianic Word Formation
2.3.5 Paradigmatic Motivation of Meaning
2.4 Other Units
2.4.1 Roots and Stems
2.4.2 Constructions
2.4.3 Templates
2.5 Correlations between Morphemes and Morphs and Morphological Typology
Exercises
Further Reading
3 Morphological Structures
3.1 The Motivation for Morphological Structures
3.1.1 Evidence in Favour of Word-Internal Structure
3.2 The Properties of Morphological Structures
3.2.1 The Concept of Head
3.2.2 The Position of the Head
3.2.3 Binary Branching
3.3 Arguments against Morphological Structures
3.3.1 A-Morphous Morphology
3.3.2 Exocentricity
3.3.3 Bracketing Paradoxes
3.3.4 Double Base
3.3.5 Parasynthesis
Exercises
Further Reading
4 Inflectional Processes
4.1 Properties of Inflection
4.2 Inflection and Grammatical Categories
4.2.1 A Comparison of Five Languages
4.2.2 Non-Inflected Categories: Prepositions, Conjunctions and Adverbs
4.3 Desinences and Theme Vowels in Grammar
4.3.1 The Status of Gender and the Notion of Desinence
4.3.2 Theme Vowels
4.4 Paradigms
4.4.1 Syncretism
4.4.2 Defectiveness
4.4.3 Suppletion
4.4.4 Patterns of Irregularity
Exercises
Further Reading
5 Derivational Processes
5.1 Properties of Derivation
5.2 Category Changes
5.2.1 Nominalizations
5.2.2 Verbalizations
5.2.3 Adjectivalizations
5.3 Semantic Changes
5.4 Category Change without Formal Marking: Conversion
5.5 Argument Structure Changes
5.5.1 Lexical Alternations
5.6 Questions Raised by the Analysis of Derivational Processes in a Single Language
5.7 The Boundaries between Inflection and Derivation
5.7.1 Appreciative Morphology
5.7.2 Hybrid Categories
Exercises
Further Reading
6 Compounding and Other Word-Formation Processes
6.1 Properties of Compounds
6.2 Basic Classes of Compounds
6.2.1 Classes According to the Relation Established between the Two Elements
6.2.2 Synthetic Compounds
6.2.3 Parasynthetic Compounds
6.2.4 Co-Compounds
6.3 Compounding between Syntax and Morphology
6.3.1 Some Differences between Compounds and Phrases
6.3.2 Intermediate Cases
6.4 Compounds and Grammatical Categories: Japanese and English
6.5 Other Word-Formation Processes
6.5.1 Clipping
6.5.2 Reduplication
6.5.3 Acronymy
6.5.4 Blending
Exercises
Further Reading
7 Morphologyβs Relation to Syntax
7.1 The Place of Morphology in Grammar: Lexicalism and Constructionism
7.1.1 Lexicalist Theories
7.1.2 Constructionism
7.2 The Generalized Lexicalist Hypothesis: Empirical Data
7.2.1 Syntactic Material inside Words: The No Phrase Constraint
7.2.2 Non-Morphological Processes and the Internal Structure of Words
7.2.3 Absence of Movement and the Theory of Syntactic Domains
7.2.4 Absence of Coreference to Word-Internal Constituents
7.3 The Relation between Syntax and Morphology in Diachrony: Morphologization
Exercises
Further Reading
8 Morphologyβs Relation to Phonology and Semantics
8.1 Restrictions Imposed by Phonology on Morphology
8.2 The Phonological Materialization of Morphemes
8.2.1 Morphology and Phonology Feed Each Other: Lexical Strata
8.2.2 Morphology Is Independent from Phonology: The Separation Hypothesis
8.2.3 Morphology Precedes Phonology: The Late Insertion Hypothesis
8.2.4 Post-Syntactic Morphological Operations in Distributed Morphology
8.3 Accounting for Allomorphs: Localism and Globalism
8.4 The Linearization of Morphological Structure: Morpheme Order
8.4.1 Syntactic Accounts
8.4.2 Semantic Accounts
8.4.3 Purely Morphological Accounts
8.4.4 Phonological Accounts
8.4.5 Parsing-Based Accounts
8.5 The Meaning of Words and Affixes
8.5.1 The Meaning of Units Is Decomposable
8.5.2 Semantic Atomicity
8.5.3 Do Affixes Have a Meaning of their Own?
8.6 Compositionality and Semantic Unpredictability
8.6.1 The Unpredictability of Meaning
8.6.2 Dividing Structures and Concepts: Two Types of Meaning
8.6.3 How to Represent Demotivation
Exercises
Further Reading
Answers to the Exercises
References
Index