This textbook provides an in-depth introduction to morphology, while also engaging with the latest research and developments in the field. By presenting the latest theories and highlighting the current challenges in morphology, it offers a firm grounding for starting your own original research and will inspire your own thinking about the morphology of your target languages. It guides you through the context, theories and latest research in morphology with end-of-chapter exercises designed to strengthen your understanding of key topics and suggestions for further reading offered as a starting point for further study.This second edition incorporates the latest research within morphology, drawing on new research from the fields of psycholinguistics and language acquisition and discussing morphology in relation to syntax, lexical semantics and phonology. It also pays particular attention to the debate between lexicalism and constructionism. With two new chapters on morphology and language acquisition and morphology and psycholinguistics and updated accounts of the claims made within each theory to reflect current research trends, there is so much here to invigorate and inspire your study of morphology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-01-31
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt414 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Advanced Textbooks in Linguistics
Antal sidor272
Upplaga2
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399529723

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Antonio Fábregas is Full Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of eight monographs and more than a hundred articles on the structure of words in Romance languages and their interaction with semantics and phonology. Sergio Scalise is full professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bologna. He has worked exstensively on theoretical morphology and on morphology of Italian, He is director of the Journal “Lingue e Linguaggio” and co-organizer of the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings. He gave courses, seminars and lectures in several universities (Madrid, Barcelona, Girona, Paris, Cambridge, Hamburg, Vienna, Tokyo, New York, Amsterdam, Rome, Budapest, etc.)

List of AbbreviationsForeword 1. Morphology: Definitions and Basic Concepts2. Morphological Units3. Morphological Structures4. Inflectional Processes5. Derivational Processes6. Compounding and Other Word-Formation Processes7. Morphology’s Relation to Syntax8. Morphology’s Relation to Phonology and Semantics9. Psycholinguistic Issues in Morphology10. Acquisition and Loss of Morphological KnowledgeAnswers to the ExercisesReferencesIndex