[...] a wealth of fresh data from a wide range of languages with interesting discussions of different theoretical approaches and solutions in a lively, but not vitriolic, argumentative style, so that it can be regarded as a welcome contribution towards the integration of theoretical and typological lines of research in the field of morphology.

- Rita Brdar-Szabó in Suvremena linguistica Vol.27.1/2, 2001,

The volume not only presents a wealth of new data and observations, but also includes much high-level theoretical debate and comparison of different approaches to morphology.

- Andrew Simpson in Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 12, issue 1, April 2002,

This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna. It presents advances in morphological theorizing, such as the foundations of sign-based morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the boundaries between compounding and derivation, derivation and inflection, and the emergence of morphology from premorphological precursors in early first-language acquisition. The contributions deal with morphological analyses in various fields of the ever-widening domain of morphology and its relevance to the lexicon.
The comparative aspect is reflected in the above-mentioned areas, and through the variety of languages investigated: Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages of Europe, and Asian, African and American languages. This breadth allows valuable insights into current problems of morphological research in America, Western and Eastern Europe.
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This title details a broad variety of linguistic topics from Salish evidence on the causative-inchoative alternation to Catalan verbal compounds: internal order and argument interpretation.
1. Introduction (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 2. An optimality theoretic account for "Ergative Displacement" in Basque (by Albizu, Pablo); 3. Salish evidence on the causative-inchoative alternation (by Davis, Henry); 4. Prefixation and the head-complement parameter (by Gracia, Lluisa); 5. Catalan verbal compounds: Internal order and argument interpretation (by Gracia, Lluisa); 6. Are fillers as precursors of morphemes relevant for morphological theory? A case story from the acquisition of French (by Kilani-Schoch, Marianne); 7. Productivity as a sign of category change: The case of Hungarian verbal Prefixes (by Ladanyi, Maria); 8. Are Affixes Signs?: The semantic relationships of English derivational Affixes (by Lehrer, Adrienne); 9. Athabaskan redux: Against the position class as a morphological category (by McDonough, Joyce); 10. Agentive nouns in Dogon: Neither derivation nor inflection? (by Plungian, Vladimir A.); 11. Agreement morphology in Chukotkan (by Spencer, Andrew); 12. Three models of the morphology-syntax interface (by Williams, Edwin); 13. Language index; 14. Subject index
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ISBN
9789027237088
Publisert
2000-07-15
Utgiver
John Benjamins Publishing Co; John Benjamins Publishing Co
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620 gr
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245 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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