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Morphological Typology
  • From Word to Paradigm
  • Gregory Stump, Raphael A. Finkel
  • Published online:
    05 June 2013
    Print publication:
    11 July 2013
  • In this radically new approach to morphological typology, the authors set out new and explicit methods for the typological classification of languages. Drawing on evidence from a diverse range of languages including Chinantec, Dakota, French, Fur, Icelandic, Ngiti and Sanskrit, the authors propose innovative ways of measuring inflectional complexity. Designed to engage graduate students and academic researchers, the book presents opportunities for further investigation. The authors' data sets and the computational tool that they constructed for their analysis are available online, allowing readers to employ them in their own research. Readers can access the online computational tool through www.cambridge.org/stump_finkel.

English Words and Sentences
  • An Introduction
  • Eva Duran Eppler, Gabriel Ozón
  • Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    20 December 2012
  • Hands-on, theory-neutral and non-technical, this textbook is a basic introduction to the structure of English words and sentences. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistic analysis, it presents the facts in a straightforward manner and offers a step-by-step guide from small to large building blocks of language. Every chapter contains numerous exercises and discussion questions, which provide essential self-study material, as well as in-chapter tasks which lead students to a more comprehensive understanding of linguistic issues. The book also features concise chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, an inclusive glossary and two consolidation chapters which encourage students to secure their understanding of the English language. The dedicated companion website includes further exercises, answers and solutions to the exercises, as well as useful links.

  • Chapter 1 - Language and this book

  • Eva Duran Eppler, Roehampton University, London, Gabriel Ozón, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    English Words and Sentences
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    20 December 2012, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    In this chapter . . .

    In this chapter we will introduce you to a system of thinking about, and then describing, English words and sentences. We will see that most words can have different forms. Combined according to rules of grammar (morpho-syntax), words can form larger units such as phrases, clauses and sentences. Many words can also be segmented into smaller meaningful units, which are called morphemes. We will discover that the most important shared characteristic of these units is that they all have internal structure. As we will see, in order to work systematically with English words and sentences, we need to analyse both: the structure that lies behind words (morphology), and the organising principles according to which native speakers assemble words into sentences (syntax). And we will see that, without this internal structure, we would not be able to communicate with language, and this is, after all, its purpose. We will not give you stylistic or prescriptive rules, but together we will discover the conventions underlying the use of standard English for communication.

  • Chapter 2 - Word classes

  • Eva Duran Eppler, Roehampton University, London, Gabriel Ozón, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    English Words and Sentences
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    20 December 2012, pp 17-41

  • Summary

    In this chapter . . .

    In this chapter we will introduce the main word classes: nouns, determiners, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions. We said that in order to work systematically with English words and sentences, we need to analyse both the structure that lies behind words (morphology) and the organising principles according to which sentences are assembled (syntax). In accordance with this principle, we will introduce you to morphological, syntactic and semantic criteria for word-class identification. We will see that word meaning is of course important for words to fit into a sentence; but their form characteristics are equally important. Each of the sections begins with a discussion of the shared properties of the word class under consideration. Once we have identified the typical characteristics of a word class, we will introduce you to different sub-types within it, if there are any. Activities on the fuzziness of different word classes, and on how distributional criteria allow us to shed some light on this fuzziness, will be relegated to the end of the chapter. In this chapter you will learn to work out which word class any word in any given sentence belongs to.

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