ABSTRACT

This book aims to provide a thorough and wide-ranging introduction to approaches to morphology in linguistic theory over the last twenty years. This comprehensive survey concentrates not only on the generative linguistic mainstream, but on approaches that are less fashionable or relatively unknown to English-speaking linguists, and highlights recent European, particularly German-speaking research.

part |2 pages

Part I Introduction

chapter 1|6 pages

Aims and scope

part |2 pages

Part II The Chomskyan impetus in morphological research

chapter 2|41 pages

Morphology and the lexicon

chapter 3|38 pages

Morphology and phonology

chapter 4|63 pages

Morphology and syntax

part |2 pages

Part III Other Impetuses in Morphological Research

chapter 5|17 pages

Typological and diachronic issues

chapter 6|21 pages

Meaning-based approaches to morphology

chapter 8|34 pages

Natural Morphology and related approaches

part |2 pages

Part IV Conclusions