LINGUIST List 17.1046

Fri Apr 07 2006

Books: Morphology: Di Sciullo

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Directory         1.    David Weininger, Asymmetry in Morphology: Di Sciullo

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Message 1: Asymmetry in Morphology: Di Sciullo
Date: 06-Apr-2006
From: David Weininger <dgwmit.edu>
Subject: Asymmetry in Morphology: Di Sciullo


Title: Asymmetry in Morphology Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

Publication Year: 2006 Publisher: MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/FL20050262042290

Author: Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Hardback: ISBN: 0262042290 Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 70 Paperback: ISBN: 026254184X Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 30

Abstract:

In this groundbreaking monograph, Anna Maria Di Sciullo proposes that asymmetry - the irreversibility of a pair of elements in an ordered set - is a hard-wired property of morphological relations. Her argument that asymmetry is central in derivational morphology, would, if true, make morphological objects regular objects of grammar just as syntactic and phonological objects are. This contrasts with the traditional assumption that morphology is irregular and thus not subject to the basic hard-wired regularities of form and interpretation.

Di Sciullo argues that the asymmetric property of morphological relations is part of the language faculty. She proposes a theory of grammar, Asymmetry Theory, according to which generic operations have specific instantiations in parallel derivations of the computational space. She posits that morphological and syntactic relations share a property, asymmetry, but diverge with respect to other properties of their primitives, operations, and interface representations. ciullo offers empirical support for her theory with examples from a variety of languages, including English, Modern Greek, African, Romance, Turkish, and Slavic.

"This is an important and revealing work on morphology. It constitutes essential reading for both morphologists and syntacticians, but also for anyone who is seriously interested in theoretical questions about word structure and wants to keep abreast of the latest work in minimalism." --Angela Ralli, Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Philology (Linguistics Division), University of Patras, Greece



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Subject Language(s): English (eng) Greek (ell) Turkish (tur)

Language Family(ies): Romance Slavic Subgroup

Written In: English (eng)

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