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1175 results in Morphology

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  • 2 - Studying Complex Words

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 20-43

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses in some detail the problems that arise with the implementation of the basic notions introduced in chapter 1 in the actual analysis of word structure in English. First, the notion of the morpheme is scrutinized with its problems of the mapping of form and meaning. Then the phenomenon of base and affix allomorphy is introduced, followed by a discussion of the notion of ‘word-formation rule’. Finally, cases of multiple affixation and compounding are analyzed.

  • Answer Key to Exercises

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 198-229

  • Summary

    This chapter provides answers to the exercises found at the end of each chapter. Where appropriate, the answers include critical discussions of the data, concepts and analyses employed.

  • 4 - Affixation

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 71-104

  • Summary

    This chapter provides an overview of the affixational word-formation processes of English. First, it discusses how affixes can be distinguished from other entities. This is followed by an introduction to the methodological problems of data gathering for the study of affixation through dictionaries and electronic corpora. Then some general properties that characterize the system of English affixation are introduced, and a survey of a wide range of suffixes and prefixes is presented. Finally, we investigate cases of infixation.

  • 6 - Compounding

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 131-161

  • Summary

    This chapter is concerned with compounds. Section 6.1 focuses on the basic characteristics of compounds, investigating the kinds of element compounds are made of, their internal structure, headedness, and stress patterns. This is followed by descriptions of individual compounding patterns and the discussion of the specific empirical and theoretical problems these patterns pose. In particular, nominal, adjectival, verbal, and neoclassical compounds are examined, followed by an exploration of the syntax-morphology boundary.

  • 5 - Derivation without Affixation

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 105-130

  • Summary

    This chapter deals with non-affixational word-formation processes. First, three major problems of conversion are discussed. This is followed by an introduction to prosodic morphology with a detailed analysis of some morphological categories that are expressed by chiefly prosodic means, such as truncated names, -y diminutives, clippings, and blends. Finally, abbreviations and acronyms are investigated.

  • 4 - Affixation

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 71-104

  • Summary

    This chapter provides an overview of the affixational word-formation processes of English. First, it discusses how affixes can be distinguished from other entities. This is followed by an introduction to the methodological problems of data gathering for the study of affixation through dictionaries and electronic corpora. Then some general properties that characterize the system of English affixation are introduced, and a survey of a wide range of suffixes and prefixes is presented. Finally, we investigate cases of infixation.

  • 7 - Theoretical Issues: Modeling Word-Formation

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 162-197

  • Summary

    In this chapter theories are introduced that try to find principled answers to three central problems of morphology. We will first examine approaches that try to model the interaction of phonology and morphology. This is followed by a treatment of a related problem, the ordering of affixes. In the final part of the chapter we discuss how different morphological theories conceptualize the form and nature of word-formation rules. This discussion includes word-based and morpheme-based approaches as well as computational approaches (analogical modeling and Naive Discriminative Learning).

Introducing Morphology
  • 2nd edition
  • Rochelle Lieber
  • Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    24 September 2015
  • Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject, this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics. Providing data from a wide variety of languages, it includes hands-on activities such as 'challenge' boxes, designed to encourage students to gather their own data and analyze it, work with data on websites, perform simple experiments, and discuss topics with each other. There is also an extensive introduction to the terms and concepts necessary for analyzing words. Unlike other textbooks it anticipates the question 'is it a real word?' and tackles it head on by looking at the distinction between dictionaries and the mental lexicon. This second edition has been thoroughly updated, including new examples and exercises as well as a detailed introduction to using linguistic corpora to find and analyze morphological data.

  • 2 - What Is Agreement?

  • from Part I - Theoretical Prerequisites
  • Ranko Matasović, University of Zagreb
  • Book:
    An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
    Published online:
    16 May 2018
    Print publication:
    24 May 2018, pp 12-19

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 starts with the general definition of agreement mostly found in textbooks and reference works (“systematic covariance between a semantic or formal property of one element and a formal property of another” (cf. Corbett 2006: 4, Wechsler 2015: 309)). After discussing this definition, we attempt to make it more operational for typological sampling, especially for determining whether a language has agreement or not, as well as for determining the typological parameters according to which languages with agreement differ.

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