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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968082703321

Titolo

Morphological analysis in comparison / / edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2000

ISBN

9786612163708

9781282163706

1282163701

9789027299574

9027299579

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 253 p

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 201

Altri autori (Persone)

DresslerWolfgang U. <1939->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS IN COMPARISON -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Introduction -- An optimality theoretic account for "Ergative Displacement" in Basque -- Salish evidence on the causative-inchoative alternation -- Prefixation and the head-complement parameter -- Catalan verbal compounds: Internal order and argument interpretation -- Are fillers as precursors of morphemes relevant for morphological theory? -- Productivity as a sign of category change: The case of Hungarian verbal prefixes -- Are Affixes Signs? The semantic relationships of English derivational affixes -- Athabaskan redux: Against the position class as a morphological category -- Agentive nouns in Dogon: Neither derivation nor inflection? -- Agreement morphology in Chukotkan -- Three models of the morphology-syntax interface -- Language index -- Subject index -- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

Sommario/riassunto

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.