LEADER 02910nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910456701703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-38309-4 010 $a9786612383090 010 $a0-19-155962-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000000204 035 $a(EBL)472223 035 $a(OCoLC)536239386 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337452 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258517 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337452 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10294167 035 $a(PQKB)10097165 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472223 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472223 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10358423 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL238309 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000000204 100 $a20090903d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe evolution of morphology$b[electronic resource] /$fAndrew Carstairs-McCarthy 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in the evolution of language ;$v14 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-920268-0 311 $a0-19-929978-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Index 330 $aThis book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of non-biological constraints on how language must be structured. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy argues that in certain crucial respects language is not optimally designed. This can be seen, he suggests,in the existence of not one but two kinds of grammatical organization - syntax and morphology - and in the morpho 410 0$aStudies in the evolution of language ;$v14. 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xMorphosyntax 606 $aHistorical linguistics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xMorphosyntax. 615 0$aHistorical linguistics. 676 $a415.9 700 $aCarstairs-McCarthy$b Andrew$f1945-$0562279 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456701703321 996 $aThe evolution of morphology$91927864 997 $aUNINA