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A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. Since 1988, the Yearbook of Morphology book series has proven to be an eminent platform for the growth of morphological research, containing articles on topics that are central in the current theoretical debates.
The Yearbook of Morphology 1996 focuses on the relationship between morphology and psycholinguistics. Basic questions such as the following are discussed. To what extent does the morphological structure of a word play a role in its perception and production? Are regular complex words created anew each time they are used, or are they stored in the lexicon? The relevant evidence comes from a variety of European languages. Another important theme in this yearbook is the degree of autonomy of morphology: in which respect does it differ from other modules of the grammar? The present yearbook also contains articles on periphrasis, the nature of inflectional morphology and syncretism in derivational morphology.
Audience: Theoretical and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists and psycholinguists will find this book of interest.
List of contents
Theme: Morphology and Psycholinguistics.- Morphology: why, how, when, when not, and why not?.- Morphology in real time.- Effects of semantic markedness in the processing of regular nominal singulars and plurals in Italian.- Autonomous morphology and paradigmatic relations.- Accessing and naming suffixed pseudo-words.- The representation of participles in the German mental lexicon: Evidence for the dual-mechanism model.- Transfer in a connectionist model of the acquisition of morphology.- Morphology, modality, and lexical architecture.- Morpheme frequency in speech production: Testing WEAVER.- Other Articles.- Paradigms, periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account.- A morphomic account of a syncretism in Russian deverbal nominalizations.- Template morphology and inflectional morphology.- Short Notice.- Derivational paradigms.- Book Notices.- Wolfgang U. Dressler and Cristina Burani (eds.), Crossdisciplinary Approaches to Morphology.- Laura A. Janda, Back from the brink: a study of how relic forms in languages serve as source material for analogical extension.
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.
