The Morphome Debate Hardback
Edited by Ana (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra) Luis, Ricardo (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language, Senior Lecturer in Lin Bermudez-Otero
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This volume surveys the current debate on the morphome, bringing together experts from different linguistic fields--morphology, phonology, semantics, typology, historical linguistics--and from different theoretical backgrounds, including both proponents and critics of autonomous morphology.
The concept of the morphome is one of the most influential but contentious ideas in contemporary morphology.
The term is typically used to denote a pattern of exponence lacking phonological, syntactic, or semantic motivation, and putative examples of morphomicity are frequently put forward as evidence for the existence of a purely morphological level of linguistic representation.
Central to the volume is the need to attain a deeper understanding of morphomic patterns, developing stringent diagnostics of their existence, exploring the formal grammatical devices required to characterize them adequately, and assessing their implications for language acquisition and change.
The extensive empirical evidence is drawn from a wide range of languages, including Archi, German, Kayardild, Latin and its descendants, Russian, Sanskrit, Selkup, Ulwa, and American Sign Language. As the first book to examine morphomic patterns from such a diverse range of perspectives and on such a broad cross-linguistic basis, The Morphome Debate will be of interest to researchers of all theoretical persuasions in morphology and related linguistic disciplines.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:389 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2016
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- ISBN:9780198702108
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:389 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198702108
