LINGUIST List 20.168
Mon Jan 19 2009
Books: Morphology: Haspelmath, Sims
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Understanding Morphology: Haspelmath, Sims
Message 1: Understanding Morphology: Haspelmath, Sims
Date: 19-Jan-2009
From: Max Espley <max.espleyhodder.co.uk>
Subject: Understanding Morphology: Haspelmath, Sims
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Title: Understanding Morphology, Second Edition
Series Title: Understanding Language Series
Published: 2009
Publisher: Hodder Education
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk
Author: Martin Haspelmath
Author: Andrea Sims
Paperback: ISBN: 9780340950012 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:
This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in linewith the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions tohighlight central themes in morphology as well as research exercises foreach chapter.
Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of wordstructure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of thefield of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broadrange of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Startingwith the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents theinterfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology andphonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered as are thephenomena of diachronic change such as analogy and grammaticalization.
Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purposeof shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. Theauthors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizingand discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches.
Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, andexercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students oflinguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a firstintroduction to morphology.
Linguistic Field(s):
Morphology
Written In: English (eng )
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