The study of words : an introduction
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The study of words : an introduction
(Routledge guides to linguistics)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-167) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
* The first introductory book of its kind to focus on morphology whilst assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics and linguistic concepts;
* Written in a lively and conversational manner and uses a variety of languages as examples in order to appeal to not only an introductory undergraduate market studying linguistics but also a more general readership;
* Includes pedagogical features throughout including data analysis, exercises and questions to engage with the reader.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Glossary of Terms
1 Introduction
1.1 Preliminaries
1.2 Words and Grammar and What We Know About Them
1.3 Knowledge of Language
1.4 Spelling Conventions and the International Phonetic Alphabet
1.5 Presentation of Language Data
1.6 Summary
1.7 Exercises
1.8 Arguable Answers to Exercises
2 The Lexicon
2.1 Preliminaries
2.2 Morphemes and the Lexicon
2.3 Kinds of Morphemes
2.3.1 Free and Bound
2.3.2 Lexical and Functional
2.3.3 Productive and Nonproductive Morphemes
2.3.4 Roots, Stems and Affixes
2.3.5 A Few Other Kinds of Morphemes
2.4 Summary
2.5 Exercises
2.6 Arguable Answers to Exercises
3 Words: What They Are and Where They Come From
3.1 Preliminaries
3.2 What's a Word?
3.3 So, How Many Words?
3.4 Source of the Lexicon
3.4.1 Early and Later Acquisition
3.4.2 Transmission Across Generations
3.5 What's in the Lexicon?
3.6 Summary
3.7 Exercises
3.8 Arguable Answers to Exercises
4 Inflectional Morphology
4.1 Preliminaries
4.2 Formation of Wordforms
4.3 Noun Inflections
4.3.1 Number
4.3.2 Gender
4.3.3 Definiteness/Indefiniteness
4.3.4 Case
4.3.5 Pronouns
4.3.6 Portmanteau Inflections
4.3.7 Nonconcatenative Inflection
4.4 Verb Inflections
4.4.1 Agreement
4.4.2 A Few Other Verbal Affixes
4.5 Crosslinguistic Generalizations in Inflectional Morphology
4.6 Summary
4.7 Exercises
4.8 Arguable Answers to Exercises
5 Derivation
5.1 Preliminaries
5.2 Creating Lexemes With Affixes: Case Study With -ness
5.3 Derivational Affixes
5.3.1 Zero Derivation
5.3.2 Other Kinds of Derivation
5.3.3 Iterative Derivation
5.3.4 Derivation in Other Languages
5.4 Compounds
5.4.1 Compound or Phrase
5.5 Incorporation
5.6 Putting Together Derivation and Inflection
5.7 Derivation v. Inflection
5.8 Clitics
5.9 Summary
5.10 Exercises
5.11 Arguable Answers to Exercises
6 Final Comments
Bibliography
Index
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