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A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The aim of the Yearbook of Morphology series is to support and enforce this upswing of morphological research and to give an overview of the current issues and debates at the heart of this revival.
The Yearbook of Morphology 1995 focuses on an important issue in the current morphological debate: the relation between inflection and word formation. What are the criteria for their demarcation, in which ways do they interact and how is this distinction acquired by children? The papers presented here concur in rejecting the `split morphology hypothesis' that claims that inflection and word formation belong to different components of the grammar. This volume also deals with the marked phenomenon of subtractive morphology and its theoretical implications.
Theoretical and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists and psycholinguists interested in linguistic issues will find this book of interest.
List of contents
Theme: Inflection and Derivation.- Inherent versus contextual inflection and the split morphology hypothesis.- The inverse morphology of Plains Cree (Algonquian).- Word-class-changing inflection and morphological theory.- The unity of morphology: on the interwovenness of the derivational and inflectional dimension of the word.- Inflection inside derivation: evidence from Spanish and Portuguese.- Minimalist morphology: the role of paradigms.- Other Articles.- Compounding and inflection in German child language.- Zero morphology and constraint interaction: subtraction and epenthesis in German dialects.- Subtractive morphology and morpheme identity in Arabic pausal forms.- Short Notice.- Perceptual salience and affix order: noun plurals as input to word formation.- Book Notices.
About the author
Geert Booij is professor of general linguistics, well-known specialist in the subdiscipline of morphology, has published widely on this topic since 1977 in books and international journals.
Jaap van Marle is professor of language and culture. Specialist in research on American Dutch. Has published widely on morphology and its fate in language contact and language change.
