02876nam 2200601Ia 450 991078080850332120230725044840.01-282-38309-497866123830900-19-155962-8(CKB)2550000000000204(EBL)472223(OCoLC)536239386(SSID)ssj0000337452(PQKBManifestationID)11258517(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337452(PQKBWorkID)10294167(PQKB)10097165(MiAaPQ)EBC472223(Au-PeEL)EBL472223(CaPaEBR)ebr10358423(CaONFJC)MIL238309(EXLCZ)99255000000000020420090903d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe evolution of morphology[electronic resource] /Andrew Carstairs-McCarthyOxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20101 online resource (267 p.)Studies in the evolution of language ;14Description based upon print version of record.0-19-920268-0 0-19-929978-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Design in language and design in biology; 2 Why there is morphology: Traditional accounts; 3 A cognitive-articulatory dilemma; 4 Modes of synonymy avoidance; 5 The ancestors of affixes; 6 The ancestors of stem alternants; 7 Derivation, compounding, and lexical storage; 8 Morphological homonymy and morphological meanings; 9 Conclusions; References; Language Index; Name Index; Subject IndexThis book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of non-biological constraints on how language must be structured. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy argues that in certain crucial respects language is not optimally designed. This can be seen, he suggests,in the existence of not one but two kinds of grammatical organization - syntax and morphology - and in the morphoStudies in the evolution of language ;14.Grammar, Comparative and generalMorphosyntaxHistorical linguisticsGrammar, Comparative and generalMorphosyntax.Historical linguistics.415.9Carstairs-McCarthy Andrew1945-562279MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780808503321The evolution of morphology3701265UNINA