Full Description
The field of morphology has gained expanded importance in contemporary linguistics with the realization that it can no longer be narrowly construed as the study of the means by which complex words are formed. Rather, the study of morphology must be situated in the context of our understanding of the mental lexicon as a whole. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology offers a sweeping introduction to the field, showing that morphology is not only an active area of study in its own right, but also a critical link between different subfields of linguistics.
Led by Editor in Chief Rochelle Lieber and an editorial board of international experts, this collection includes 115 wide-ranging and in-depth articles, encompassing all aspects of morphology, such as morphological units, inflection, derivation, compounding, and formal morphological means. Contributors at the forefront of the field discuss the major theoretical debates and methodological approaches, exploring the interface between morphology and phonology, syntax, and semantics, along with psycholinguistic, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistic issues. The final section of the encyclopedia presents illustrative sketches of the morphological systems of a wide range of language families, from Arawak and Dravidian to Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European, offering a wide range of cross-linguistic data that will be useful to both researchers and teachers.
Contents
Preface (Rochelle Lieber)
Morphological Units
Morphological Entities: Overview and General Issues (Laurie Bauer)
The Status of the Morpheme (Thomas Leu)
Morphological Units: Stems (Paul Kiparsky)
Morphological Units: Words (Paolo Ramat)
Inflection
Inflectional Morphology (Gregory Stump)
Person in Morphology (Michael Daniel)
Number in Language (Paolo Acquiviva)
Gender (Jenny Audring)
Case (Andrej L. Malchukov)
Tense and Aspect in Morphology (Marianne Mithun)
Mirativity in Morphology (Tyler Peterson)
Switch Reference in Morphology (Rik van Gijn)
Paradigms in Morphology (Peter Milin and James P. Blevins)
Syncretism in Morphology (Pavel Caha)
Defectiveness in Morphology (Antonio Fábregas)
Suppletion (Ljuba N. Veselinova)
Deponency in Morphology (Laura Grestenberger)
Overabundance in Morphology (Anna M. Thornton)
Agreement in Morphology (Patricia Cabredo Hofherr)
Derivation
Derivational Morphology (Rochelle Lieber)
Nominalization: General Overview and Theoretical Issues (Rochelle Lieber)
Event/Result in Morphology (Artemis Alexiadou)
Personal/Participant/Inhabitant in Morphology (Marios Andreou)
Collective/Abstract in Morphology (Livio Gaeta)
Causative/Inchoative in Morphology (Mercedes Tubino-Blanco)
Denominal Verbs in Morphology (Heike Baeskow)
Adjectivalization in Morphology (Petra Sleeman)
Functional Categories: Complementizers and Adpositions (Lena Baunaz)
Form and Meaning of (Indefinite) Pronouns (Olaf Koeneman, Hedde Zeilstra)
Evaluatives in Morphology (Nicola Grandi)
Negation in Morphology (Karen De Clercq)
Quantitative Derivation in Morphology (Gianina Iord?chioaia)
Numerals in Morphology (Ljuba N. Veselinova)
Compounding
Compounding in Morphology (Pius ten Hacken)
Subordinate and Synthetic Compounds in Morphology (Chiara Melloni)
Coordination in compounds (Angela Ralli)
Exocentricity in Morphology (Maria Irene Moyna)
Formal Morphological Means
Parasynthesis in Morphology (Claudio Iacobini)
Conversion in Morphology (Sandór Martsa)
Phonological and Morphological Aspects of Reduplication (Suzanne Urbanczyk)
Templatic Morphology (Clippings, Word-and-Pattern) (Outi Bat-El)
Internal Stem Change (Apophony, Consonant Mutation) in Morphology (Thomas Stewart)
Combining Forms and Affixoids in Morphology (Dany Amiot, Edwige Dugas)
Blending in Morphology (Natalia Beliaeva)
Linking Elements in Morphology (Renata Szczepaniak)
Subtraction in Morphology (Stela Manova)
Morphological Frameworks
American Descriptivist Morphology in the 1950s (John Goldsmith)
Classical Generative Morphology (Pius ten Hacken)
Natural Morphology (Wolfgang U. Dressler)
Distributed Morphology (Jonathan David Bobaljik)
Construction Morphology (Geert Booij)
Lexical Semantic Framework for Morphology (Marios Andreou)
Paradigm Function Morphology: Assumptions and Innovations (Gregory Stump)
The Onomasiological Approach (Jesús Fernández-Domínguez)
Morphology in Cognitive Linguistics (Tore Nesset)
Network Morphology (Andrew Hippisley)
Theoretical Debates
The Status of Heads in Morphology (Beata Moskal and Peter W. Smith)
Categorization of Roots (Terje Lohndal)
Lexical Integrity in Morphology (Ignacio Bosque)
Exoskeletal Versus Endoskeletal Approaches in Morphology (Víctor Acedo-Matellán)
Blocking (Franz Rainer)
The Nature of Productivity (including Word Formation Versus Creative Coining). (Andrew Spencer)
Bracketing Paradoxes in Morphology (Heather Newell)
Zero Morphemes (Eystein Dahl, Antonio Fabregas)
The Nature of Subtractive Processes in Morphology (Kazutaka Kurisu)
Psycholinguistic Issues
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Morphology: Production (Benjamin Tucker)
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Morphology (Christina L. Gagné)
Words Versus Rules (Storage Versus Online Production/Processing) in Morphology (Vsevolod Kapatsinski)
Issues in Neurolinguistic Studies of Morphology (Robert Fiorentino)
First Language Acquisition of Morphology (Dorit Ravid)
Learning and Using Morphology and Morphosyntax in a Second Language (Laurie Beth Feldman, Judith F. Kroll)
Methodology and Resources in Morphology
Psycholinguistic Methods and Tasks in Morphology (Victor Kuperman and Daniel Schmidke)
Neurolinguistic Approaches in Morphology (Niels O. Schiller)
Computational Approaches to Morphology (Emmanuel Keuleers)
Quantitative Methods in Morphology: Corpora and Other 'Big Data' Approaches (Marco Marelli)
Morphology and Language Documentation (Yuni Kim)
The Morphology-Syntax Interface
Argument Structure and Morphology (Jim Wood, Neil Myler)
Parts of Speech, Lexical Categories, and Word Classes in Morphology (Jaklin Kornfilt)
Morphology and Argument Alternations (Malka Rappaport Hovav)
Clitics and Clitic Clusters in Morphology (Eulalia Bonet)
Head Movement and Morphological Strength (Jan-Wouter Zwart)
Morphology and Pro Drop (Olaf Koeneman, Hedde Zeijlstra)
Multi-Word Expressions and Morphology (Francesca Masini)
The Morphology-Phonetics/Phonology Interface
Morphology and Phonotactics (Maria Gouskova)
Morphology and Metrical Structure (Birgit Alber and Sabine Arndt-Lappe)
Morphology and Tone (Irina Monich)
The Phonology of Compounds (Irene Vogel)
Phonetic Detail and Gradience in Morphophonological Alternations (Patrycja Strycharczuk)
The Morphology-Semantics Interface
Polysemy Versus Homonymy (Salvador Valera)
Morphology and Lexical Semantics (Reka Benczes)
Lexicalization in Morphology (Martin Hilpert)
Diachronic Aspects of Morphology
Morphological Change (Carola Trips)
Grammaticalization in Morphology (Muriel Norde)
Morphology and Language Attrition (Silvina Montrul, James Yoon)
Analogy in Morphology (Daniel Fertig)
Morphology in the Languages of the World
Morphology in Typology: Historical Retrospect, State of the Art, and Prospects (Peter M. Arkadiev)
Lexical Typology in Morphology (Ljuba N. Veselinova, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm)
Head-Dependent Marking (Johanna Nichols, Yury Lander)
Morphology in Altaic Languages (Asl? Göksel)
Morphology in Arawak Languages (Alexandra Aikhenvald)
Morphology in Austronesian Languages (Maria Polinsky, Theodore Levin)
Morphology in Dravidian Languages (R. Amritavalli)
Morphology in Kra-Dai Languages (Yongxian Luo)
Morphology in Sino-Tibetan Languages (Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Bianca Basciano)
A Typological Perspective on the Morphology of Nilo-Saharan Languages (Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal)
Morphology in Austroasiatic Languages (Mark J. Alves)
Morphology in Northwest Caucasian Languages (Yury Lander)
Morphology in Quechuan Languages (Willem F.H. Adelaar)
Morphology in Dene-Yeniseian Languages (Edward Vajda)
Morphology in Australian Languages (Brett Baker)
Morphology in Niger-Congo Languages (Denis Creissels)
Morphology in Uralic Languages (Anna S?rés, Krisztina Hevér-Joly)
Morphology in Trans-New Guinean Languages (Sebastian Fedden)
Morphology in Indo-European Languages (Paolo Milizia)
Morphology in Japonic Languages (Taro Kageyama)
The Morphology of Yam Languages (Matthew J. Carroll)
