The evolution of morphology /

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Author / Creator:Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew, 1945-
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Studies in the evolution of language ; 14
Studies in the evolution of language ; 14.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282950
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ISBN:9780191559624
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9780199299782
0199299781
9780199202683
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of non-biological constraints on how language must be structured. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy argues that in certain crucial respects language is not optimally designed. This can be seen, he suggests, in the existence of not one but two kinds of grammatical organization - syntax and morphology - and in the morpho.
Other form:Print version: Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. Evolution of Morphology. Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2010 9780199299782
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505 0 |a Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Design in language and design in biology; 2 Why there is morphology: Traditional accounts; 3 A cognitive-articulatory dilemma; 4 Modes of synonymy avoidance; 5 The ancestors of affixes; 6 The ancestors of stem alternants; 7 Derivation, compounding, and lexical storage; 8 Morphological homonymy and morphological meanings; 9 Conclusions; References; Language Index; Name Index; Subject Index. 
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