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A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to.
The Yearbook of Morphology 1998 focuses on two issues: the position of inflection in the grammar, and the interaction of morphology with phonology, in particular the problem of allomorphy. In addition, this volume presents a study of the relation between transposition and argument structure, a declarative model of word formation applied to conversion in German, an analysis of Dutch verbal compounds and a study of the semantic aspects of nominalization. The relevant evidence comes from a wide variety of languages.
Theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists, and psycholinguists will find this book of interest.
List of contents
Papers from the First Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Mytilene Guest editors: Angela Rally and Sergio Scalise.- Prototypical inflection: implications for typology.- The status of tense within inflection.- On the boundaries of inflection and syntax: Greek pronominal clitics and particles.- Transpositions and argument structure.- On Italian derivatives with antesuffixal glides.- Other papers.- The nonuniform structure of Dutch N-V compounds.- Lenition in Hessian: cluster reduction and 'subtractive plurals'.- Nominalizations in a calculus of lexical semantic representations.- A declarative approach to conversion into verbs in German.- Phonological constraints on English word formation.- Book review.- Review of Packard (1998): New Approaches toChinese Word Formation.
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.
