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Author / Creator:	Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	London : Hodder Education, 2010.
Description:	xvi, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Understanding language series Understanding language series.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8286089

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Other authors / contributors:	Sims, Andrea D.
ISBN:	9780340950012 (pbk.) 0340950013 (pbk.)
Notes:	Previous ed.: London : Arnold, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-317) and index.
Summary:	This introduction to morphology assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and presents the field of morphology in an accessible way. Emphasis is put on presenting a range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
1.1. What is morphology?
1.2. Morphology in different languages
1.3. The goals of morphological research
1.4. A brief user's guide to this book
Summary of chapter 1
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
2. Lexical units
2.1. Lexems and word forms
2.2. Morphemes as the basic lexical units
2.3. Some difficulties in morpheme analysis
2.4. Words as the basic lexical units
2.5. Reconciling words and morphemes
Summary of chapter 2
Further reading
Appendix: morpheme-by-morpheme glosses
Exercises
Research skills
3. Rules
3.1. Productivity
3.2. Formal operations
3.3. The form of morphological rules
Summary of chapter 3
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
4. Inflection and derivation
4.1. Inflectional categories
4.2. Derivational meanings
4.3. Properties of inflection and derivation
4.4. Conceptualizations in morphological theory
4.5. Associating inflectional properties with words
Summary of chapter 4
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
5. Productivity
5.1. Possible, actual and occasional words
5.2. Measuring productivity
5.3. Morphological change
5.4. The relationship between morphological change and synchronic productivity
5.5. Restrictions on word-formation rules
5.6. Speakers' knowledge of productivity
Summary of chapter 5
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
6. The hierarchical structure of words
6.1. Compounding
6.2. Hierarchical structure and head-dependent relations in compounds
6.3. Hierarchical structure and head-dependent relations in derived lexemes
6.4. Parallelism in syntax and morphology
Summary of chapter 6
Further reading
Exercises
7. Inflectional paradigms
7.1. Types of inflection classes
7.2. Describing global inflection classes
7.3. Inheritance hierarchies
7.4. The role of stmes in inflection
7.5. Syncretism
7.6. Missing cells: defectiveness, deponency and periphrasis
7.7. Syntagmatic and paragigmatic relations in morphology
Summary of Chapter 7
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
8. Words and phrases
8.1. Diving text into words
8.2. Free forms versus bound forms
8.3. Clitics versus affixes
8.4. Compounds versus phrases
8.5. Lexical integrity
Summary of chapter 8
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
9. Morphophonology
9.1. Two types of sound alternations
9.3. Process descriptions and sound alternations
9.3. Three types of morphophonological alternations
9.4. The diachrony of morphophonological alternations
9.5. Integrated accounts of phonology and morphology
Summary of chapter 9
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
10. Morphology and valence
10.1. Valence-changing operations
10.2. Valence in compounding
10.3. Transpositional derivation
10.4. Transpositional inflection
Summary of chapter 10
Further reading
Exercises
Research skills
11. Frequency effects in morphology
11.1. Asymmetries in inflection

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