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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues that they raise.
As such, this handbook is relevant both for those interested in the facts of Spanish morphology and those interested in general morphology that want to explore how the Spanish facts illuminate our understanding of human language and current theories of morphology.
This volume is also unique in its extent and coverage. Written by an international team of leading experts in the field, it contains 42 chapters divided into four sections, covering all synchronic and diachronic aspects of Spanish morphology, including inflection; derivation; compounding and other processes of word formation; the interaction of morphology with other modules of grammar and the role of morphology in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and language teaching.
List of contents
Part I: Basic concepts and issues 1. The main units of Spanish morphology: roots, affixes, stems, words 2. Morphological formal means (I): asymmetries between prefixes and suffixes 3. Main morphological formal means (II): approaches to parasynthesis 4. Main morphological formal means (III): approaches to conversion 5. Inflection, derivation and compounding: issues of delimitation 6. Morphological variation in the Spanish-speaking world 7. Synchronic vs. diachronic morphology: convergences and divergences Part II: Inflection and word formation in Spanish 8. The inflection of nouns: gender and number 9. The basic inflectional structure of verbs (I): aspect, tense, mood and agreement 10. The basic inflectional structure of verbs (II): Conjugation classes and other paradigmatic properties of verbs 11. The basic inflectional structure of adjectives: degree and agreement 12. The main properties in the diachronic development of Spanish inflection 13. Derivation and category change (I): nominalization 14. Derivation and category change (II): adjectivalization 15. Derivation and category change (III): verbalization 16. Suffix evolution in derivation: Four cases from Latin to Spanish 17. Prefixation 18. The historical evolution of Spanish prefixes 19. Appreciative morphology 20. Main compounding types in Spanish: synchronic issues 21. The diachrony of Spanish compounding 22. Blending and truncation Part III: Morphology and its interfaces 23. Spanish morphology and the architecture of grammar 24. Allomorphy and suppletion 25. Phonotactics of Spanish morphology 26. Stress in morphologically simple and complex Spanish words 27. Interfixation 28. Metonymy in Spanish word formation 29. Morphology and pragmatics 30. Semantic change in the history of Spanish word formation 31. Argument structure, aspectual structure and morphological marking 32. Periphrases, idioms and other units 33. The status of clitics 34. Participles and gerunds 35. Grammaticalization Part IV: Beyond morphology 36. Morphology and L1 acquisition 37. Morphology and L2 acquisition 38. Morphology in Spanish heritage language grammars 39. Words vs. rules: Issues of storage in Spanish 40. Morphology and neurolinguistics of Spanish 41. Morphology and language pathologies in Spanish 42. Morphology and language teaching
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues that they raise.
