Contemporary morphological theories : a user's guide /
Provides a valuable guide to existing approaches in morphological analysis. Analyzing three descriptive challenges for morphology (Scottish Gaelic nouns, Georgian verbs, and Sanskrit compound verbs), and comparing and contrasting the backgrounds and fundamentals of leading approaches to word structu...
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Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Foreword. 1 Opening the discussion : Morphology: what and why?
- Theory and metatheory
- The continua: how to interpret a table
- Morpheme-based versus word/lexeme-based
- Formalist versus functionalist
- In-grammar versus in-lexicon
- Phonological versus syntactic formalism
- Incremental versus realisational
- The road ahead. 2 Theory profiles : A brief prologue
- A-morphous morphology
- Autolexical syntax/automodular grammar
- Categorial morphology
- Construction morphology
- Distributed morphology
- Lexeme-morpheme base morphology
- Lexical morphology and phonology/stratal optimality theory
- Minimalist morphology
- Natural morphology
- The network model
- Network morphology
- Paradigm function morphology
- Prosodic morphology
- Word-based morphology
- Word syntax
- Overview. 3 Time for a test drive: putting descriptive framework through their paces : Purpose of this chapter
- 3.1 Scottish Gaelic nouns: initial consonant mutation : A-morphous morphology
- Autolexical syntax/automodular grammar
- Categorial morphology
- Construction morphology
- Distributed morphology
- Lexeme-morpheme base morphology
- Lexical morphology and phonology/stratal optimality theory
- Minimalist morphology
- Natural morphology
- Paradigm function morphology
- Prosodic morphology
- Word-based morphology
- Word syntax
- What is at stake here? 3.2 Georgian verbs: agreement marker disjunctivity : A-morphous morphology
- Autolexical syntax/automodular grammar
- Categorial morphology
- Construction morphology
- Distributed morphology
- Lexeme-morpheme base morphology
- Lexical morphology and phonology/stratal optimality theory
- Minimalist morphology
- Natural morphology
- The network model
- Network morphology
- Paradigm function morphology
- Prosodic morphology
- Word-based morphology
- Word syntax
- What is at stake here? 3.3 Sanskrit gerunds: prefix-suffix interaction : A-morphous morphology
- Autolexical syntax/automodular grammar
- Caterorial morphology
- Construction morphology
- Distributed morphology
- Lexeme-morpheme base morphology
- Lexical morphology and phonology/stratal optimality theory
- Minimalist morphology
- Natural morphology
- The network model
- Network morphology
- Paradigm function morphology
- Prosodic morphology
- Word-based morphology
- Word syntax
- What is at stake here? 4 Broadening the discussion : The search for definition
- Typology
- Productivity
- Fair comparison
- Outro. References
- Index.
