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Zusatztext a highly stimulating book based on insightful analyses of linguistic data. It raises a number of theoretical issues that are of interest to linguists, including cognitive linguists, far beyond the circle of morphologists. And it confronts the reader with some really challenging new perspectives on how to look at the way human languages work. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has a BA (Hons) in Literae Humaniores from Oxford and a PhD on inflectional morphology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In 1969 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and from 1969 to 1972 he was in the linguistics PhD program at MIT. His books include Allomorphy in Inflexion (Croom Helm, 1987), Current Morphology (Routledge 1992), The Origins of Complex Language (OUP, 1999), and An Introduction to English Morphology (EUP 2002). Klappentext This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The author challenges the conventional views of the relationship between syntax and morphology, the adaptationist view of language evolution, and the notion that language in some way reflects 'laws of form'. Zusammenfassung This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The author challenges the conventional views of the relationship between syntax and morphology, the adaptationist view of language evolution, and the notion that language in some way reflects 'laws of form'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Design in Language and Design in Biology 2: Why There is Morphology: Traditional Accounts 3: A Cognitive-Articulatory Dilemma 4: Modes of Synonymy Avoidance 5: The Ancestors of Affixes 6: The Ancestors of Stem Alternants 7: Derivation, Compounding, and Lexical Storage 8: Morphological homonymy and Morphological Meanings 9: Conclusions ...
