What Is Morphology?,9780631203186

What Is Morphology?

by Aronoff, Mark; Fudeman, Kirsten

ISBN13: 9780631203186

ISBN10: 0631203184

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2004-10-15

Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Summary

What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology that equips readers with the skills to analyze a wealth of classic morphological issues. Provides a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology. Familiarizes the reader with the importance of morphology as a subject of research. Equips students with the skills to analyze a breadth of classic morphological issues through engaging narration and by direct example. Includes detailed discussion of the complex morphology of one West African language, Kujamaat Joola. features useful exercises at the end of each chapter.

Author Biography

Kirsten Fudeman is Professor of Linguistics and French at Ithaca College.

Table of Contents

Preface

viii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Abbreviations

xiv

Remarks on Transcription

xvi

The International Phonetic Alphabet

xviii

1 Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis

1

(31)

1.1 What is Morphology?

1

(1)

1.2 Morphemes

2

(2)

1.3 Morphology in Action

4

(5)

1.4 Background and Beliefs

9

(3)

1.5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis

12

(9)

1.6 Summary

21

(1)

Introduction to Kujamaat Jóola

22

(4)

Exercises

26

(6)

2 Words and Lexemes

32

(38)

2.1 What is a Word?

33

(3)

2.2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood

36

(3)

2.3 Types of Words

39

(5)

2.4 Inflection vs. Derivation

44

(2)

2.5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process

46

(6)

2.6 The Lexicon

52

(2)

2.7 Summary

54

(2)

Kujamaat Jóola Noun Classes

56

(9)

Exercises

65

(5)

3 Morphology and Phonology

70

(33)

3.1 Allomorphs

71

(4)

3.2 Prosodic Morphology

75

(3)

3.3 Primary and Secondary Affixes

78

(4)

3.4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy

82

(6)

3.5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages

88

(2)

3.6 Summary

90

(1)

Kujamaat Jóola Morphophonology

91

(7)

Exercises

98

(5)

4 Derivation and the Lexicon

103

(25)

4.1 The Saussurean Sign

103

(1)

4.2 Motivation and Compositionality

104

(13)

4.3 Derivation and Structure

117

(6)

4.4 Summary

123

(1)

Derivation in Kujamaat Jóola

124

(1)

Exercises

125

(3)

5 Derivation and Semantics

128

(21)

5.1 The Polysemy Problem

129

(2)

5.2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes

131

(8)

5.3 Summary

139

(1)

Derivation and Verbs in Kujamaat Jóola

140

(4)

Exercises

144

(5)

6 Inflection

149

(36)

6.1 What is Inflection?

151

(9)

6.2 Inflection vs. Derivation

160

(3)

6.3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types

163

(6)

6.4 Syncretism

169

(1)

6.5 Typology

170

(2)

6.6 Summary

172

(1)

Agreement in Kujamaat Jóola

173

(5)

Exercises

178

(7)

7 Morphology and Syntax

185

(26)

7.1 Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection

186

(1)

7.2 Structural Constraints on Morphological Inflection

187

(2)

7.3 Inflection and Universal Grammar

189

(2)

7.4 Grammatical Function Change

191

(6)

7.5 Summary

197

(1)

Kujamaat Jóola Verb Morphology

198

(7)

A Brief Survey of Kujamaat Jóola Syntax

205

(3)

Exercises

208

(3)

8 Morphological Productivity

211

(23)

8.1 What is Morphological Productivity?

212

(2)

8.2 Productivity and Structure: Negative Prefixes in English

214

(1)

8.3 Degrees of Productivity

215

(5)

8.4 Salience and Productivity

220

(1)

8.5 Testing Productivity

221

(8)

8.6 Conclusion

229

(1)

Exercises

230

(4)

Glossary

234

(10)

References

244

(6)

Index

250