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This book offers a thorough discussion of morphological theory and is based directly on an 'inflecting' or 'fusional' language - Latin.
List of contents
Part I. Introduction: 1. Preamble; 2. The scope of a linguistic theory; 3. Evaluating morphological theories; Part II. Models of Inflectional Morphology: 4. Item and arrangement morphology: introductory remarks; 5. Item and arrangement morphology: an outline formation; 6. Characteristic problems of inflecting languages; 7. Item and arrangement versus word and paradigm; Part III. Towards a Generative Formulation: 8. Preamble; 9. Word and paradigm morphology: model and morpholexical rules; 10. Some outstanding problems in morphophonemics; Part IV. Towards an Evaluation Procedure: 11. Preamble; 12. Formal economy; 13. Some alternative possibilities in morpholexics; 14. Problems of evaluation in morphophonemics; 15. Concluding observations; Appendices; References; Indices.
About the author
Peter Matthews is a world-renowned expert on track and field athletics. He has been an athletics broadcaster on TV and radio for more than 35 years, working primarily for BBC Radio 1975-85, ITV 1985-97 and for the IAAF from 1991. He has covered nearly all the major meetings in Great Britain and worldwide over the past 40 years. He has been a leading public address announcer since 1968, and was Media Information Manager for Track and Field Athletics at the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 and worked at his seventh Olympics for the Sydney Organizing Committee in 2000.
Summary
Originally published in 1972, this was the most thorough discussion of morphological theory to appear in recent years, and one of the few to be based directly on an 'inflecting' or 'fusional' language - in this case Latin. The book is addressed to theoretical and descriptive linguists in general and no knowledge of Latin is assumed.
