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Introduction | |
What is morphology? | |
Morphology in different languages | |
The goals of morphological research | |
A brief user's guide to this book | |
Summary of chapter 1 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Lexical units | |
Lexems and word forms | |
Morphemes as the basic lexical units | |
Some difficulties in morpheme analysis | |
Words as the basic lexical units | |
Reconciling words and morphemes | |
Summary of chapter 2 | |
Further reading | |
Appendix: morpheme-by-morpheme glosses | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Rules | |
Productivity | |
Formal operations | |
The form of morphological rules | |
Summary of chapter 3 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Inflection and derivation | |
Inflectional categories | |
Derivational meanings | |
Properties of inflection and derivation | |
Conceptualizations in morphological theory | |
Associating inflectional properties with words | |
Summary of chapter 4 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Productivity | |
Possible, actual and occasional words | |
Measuring productivity | |
Morphological change | |
The relationship between morphological change and synchronic productivity | |
Restrictions on word-formation rules | |
Speakers' knowledge of productivity | |
Summary of chapter 5 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
The hierarchical structure of words | |
Compounding | |
Hierarchical structure and head-dependent relations in compounds | |
Hierarchical structure and head-dependent relations in derived lexemes | |
Parallelism in syntax and morphology | |
Summary of chapter 6 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Inflectional paradigms | |
Types of inflection classes | |
Describing global inflection classes | |
Inheritance hierarchies | |
The role of stmes in inflection | |
Syncretism | |
Missing cells: defectiveness, deponency and periphrasis | |
Syntagmatic and paragigmatic relations in morphology | |
Summary of Chapter 7 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Words and phrases | |
Diving text into words | |
Free forms versus bound forms | |
Clitics versus affixes | |
Compounds versus phrases | |
Lexical integrity | |
Summary of chapter 8 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Morphophonology | |
Two types of sound alternations | |
Process descriptions and sound alternations | |
Three types of morphophonological alternations | |
The diachrony of morphophonological alternations | |
Integrated accounts of phonology and morphology | |
Summary of chapter 9 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Morphology and valence | |
Valence-changing operations | |
Valence in compounding | |
Transpositional derivation | |
Transpositional inflection | |
Summary of chapter 10 | |
Further reading | |
Exercises | |
Research skills | |
Frequency effects in morphology | |
Asymmetries in inflection | |
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