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Recent years have seen a revival of interest in morphology. The Yearbook of Morphology series supports and enforces this upswing of morphological research and gives an overview of the current issues and debates at the heart of this revival.
The Yearbook of Morphology 1994 focuses on prosodic morphology, i.e. the interaction between morphological and prosodic structure, on the semantics of word formation, and on a number of related issues in the realm of inflection: the structure of paradigms, the relation between inflection and word formation, and patterns of language change with respect to inflection. There is also discussion of the relevance of the notion `level ordering' for morphological generalizations.
All theoretical and historical linguists, morphologists, and phonologists will want to read this book.
List of contents
Theme: Mechanisms of Morphological Change.- The Growth of Affixes in Morphological Reanalysis.- The Creation of Morphological Zeroes.- Affixation and Morphological Longevity.- Other Articles.- The Theoretical Relevance of Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition.- Gender, Animacy, and Declensional Class Assignment: A Unified Account for Russian.- Evaluative Affixes in Italian.- Compounds: A View from Suffixation and A-structure Alteration.- Prosodic Constraints in the Derivational Morphology of Italian.- The Uniformity of Head Marking in Inflectional Morphology.- Book Notices.- Announcement.
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.
Summary
the interaction between morphological and prosodic structure, on the semantics of word formation, and on a number of related issues in the realm of inflection: the structure of paradigms, the relation between inflection and word formation, and patterns of language change with respect to inflection.
