Morphological Perspectives: Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474446019 ISBN 13: 9781474446013

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features.

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About the Authors

Matthew Baerman is Principal Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey. His research focuses on the typology, diachrony and formal analysis of morphological systems, with a particular concentration on phenomena that are unusual or difficult to categorize. He is the co-author (with Dunstan Brown and Greville Corbett) of Morphlogical Complexity (CUP, 2017) and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Inflection (OUP, 2015).

Andrew Hippisley is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University. He is the co-editor of Deponency and Morphological Mismatches (2007, OUP) and co-author of Network Morphology (2012, CUP).

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Places morphology at the centre of its own research agenda In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features. Key Features *Full ranging examination of morphology's role in its canonical and non-canonical aspects *Chapters by some of the key experts in morphological typology including Bernard Comrie, Andrew Spencer, Mark Aronoff, Maria Polinsky, Oliver Bonami, Johanna Nichols and Nicholas Evans *New thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features Matthew Baerman is a Senior Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey Oliver Bond is Lecturer in Linguistics in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey. Andrew Hippisley is Professor of Linguistics and Linguistics Programme Director at the University of Kentucky Cover image: Polyphon Gefasstes Weiss, Paul Klee, 1930 (c) akg-images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-4600-6 Barcode

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Places morphology at the centre of its own research agendaIn a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features. Key Features*Full ranging examination of morphology s role in its canonical and non-canonical aspects*Chapters by some of the key experts in morphological typology including Bernard Comrie, Andrew Spencer, Mark Aronoff, Maria Polinsky, Oliver Bonami, Johanna Nichols and Nicholas Evans*New thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological featuresMatthew Baerman is a Senior Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of SurreyOliver Bond is Lecturer in Linguistics in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey.Andrew Hippisley is Professor of Linguistics and Linguistics Programme Director at the University of KentuckyCover image: Polyphon Gefasstes Weiss, Paul Klee, 1930 © akg-imagesCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4600-6Barcode

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474446019
• ISBN 13: 9781474446013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 474
• Editor: Baerman Matthew, Bond Oliver, Hippisley Andrew