Mel'cuk / Beck Aspects of the Theory of Morphology

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019986-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 146, 631 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

The book is dedicated to linguistic morphology and it contains a sketch of a complete morphological theory, centered around a discussion of fundamental concepts such as morph vs. morpheme, inflectional category, voice, grammatical case, agreement vs. government, suppletion, relationships between linguistic signs, etc.: the hottest issues in modern linguistics!

The book introduces rigorous and clear concepts necessary to describe morphological phenomena of natural languages. Among other things, it offers logical calculi of possible grammemes in a given category. The presentation is developed in a typological perspective, so that linguistic data from a large variety of languages are described and analyzed (about 100 typologically very different languages).

The main method is deductive: the concepts proposed in are based on a small set of and each concept is defined in terms of these and/or other concepts defined previously; as a result, logical calculi can be constructed (similar to Mendeleev's Periodical Table of Elements in chemistry). Then the concept is applied to the actual linguistic data to demonstrate its validity and advantages.

Thus, combines metalinguistic endeavor (a system of concepts for morphology) with typological and descriptive orientation. It reaches out to all students of language, including the border fields and applications.

Zielgruppe

Linguists in General; Computational Linguists; Anthropologists; T

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mel'cuk, Igor

Beck, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;17
4;Chapter 1. Agreement, government, congruence;47
5;Chapter 2. Case;126
6;Chapter 3. Voice;197
7;Chapter 4. Case, the basic verbal construction, and voice in Maasai;279
8;Chapter 5. Morphological processes;304
9;Chapter 6. Gender and noun class;338
10;Chapter 7. Morph and morpheme;400
11;Chapter 8. Suppletion;421
12;Chapter 9. Zero sign in morphology;485
13;Chapter 10. The structure of linguistic signs and the semantic-formal relations between them;533
14;Chapter 11. The phonemic status of Spanishsemivowels;559
15;Conclusion Results and perspectives;579
16;Backmatter;585

Über Autor(innen)

Igor Mel'cuk, University of Montreal, Canada; David Beck, University of Alberta, Canada.