LINGUIST List 13.2090

Wed Aug 14 2002

Books: Many Morphologies,Paul Boucher (ed.)

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. michael, Many Morphologies edited by Paul Boucher

Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: Cascadilla Press 
 http://www.cascadilla.com/
			
Book URL: http://www.cascadilla.com/manym.html
			
 
Editor: Paul Boucher 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 1574731254, Pages: 267, Price: $68.95
Comment: Library Binding
Paperback: ISBN: 1574730258, Pages: 267, Price: $28.95

			
Abstract:

Many Morphologies presents new peer-reviewed and edited articles by
well-known scholars approaching morphology from various
frameworks. This book demonstrates the vitality of current research in
morphology and the diverse approaches available when tackling
morphological problems. Anyone interested in morphology and related
fields will find important new ideas about the internal and external
structure of words, the interaction between the lexicon and the
grammar, and how we should rethink fundamental processes such as word
formation. Several of the authors discuss new solutions to familiar
questions such as unaccusatives, middle verbs, plural formation, and
gender polarity. Others challenge our assumptions about how morphology
works within the grammar as a whole. Two articles discuss the vital
role of morphology in current computational linguistics projects,
showing how linguistic theory is being usefully applied in this
important and growing field.

The full introduction and the first 3 pages of each article can be
found on our web site at http://www.cascadilla.com/manym.html along
with easy on-line ordering and details on all of our linguistics
titles.

CONTENTS

The Asymmetry of Morphology
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, 1-28

Middle Transitive Alternations in English: 
A Generative Lexicon Approach
Christian Bassac and Pierrette Bouillon, 29-47

Unaccusativity Mismatches and Unaccusativity Diagnostics 
from Derivational Morphology
Bozena Cetnarowska, 48-81

Many Plurals: Inflection, Informational Additivity, 
and Morphological Processes
Susan Steele, 82-108

Gender "Polarity": 
Theoretical Aspects of Somali Nominal Morphology
Jacqueline Lecarme, 109-141

Surface-to-Surface Morphology:
When Your Representations Turn into Constraints
Luigi Burzio, 142-177

An Experimental Constructional Database: The MorTAL Project
Nabil Hathout, Fiammetta Namer, and Georgette Dal, 178-209

Applications of Computational Morphology
Beatrice Daille, Cecile Fabre, and Pascale Sebillot, 210-234

A Common Basis for Syntax and Morphology: 
Tri-level Lexical Insertion
Joseph E. Emonds, 235-262r

Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)