The morphome debate

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 concep...

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Weitere Verfasser: Luís, Ana R. (HerausgeberIn), Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY, Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Oxford Linguistics
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Zusammenfassung: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
Unnatural kinds / Mark Aronoff -- Some lessons from history: morphomes in diachrony / Martin Maiden -- Morphomic splits / Greville G. Corbett -- Thoughts on diagnosing morphomicity: a case study from Ulwa / Andrew Koontz-Garboden -- The morphome vs. similarity-based syncretism: Latin t-stem derivatives / Donca Steriade -- Morphomic categories and the realization of morphosyntactic properties / Gregory Stump -- Stems, the morphome, and meaning bearing inflection / Andrew Spencer -- Kayardild inflectional morphotactics is morphomic / Erich R. Round -- Morphomic stem extension and the German n-declension / Paolo Acquaviva -- On the distribution of stem alternants: separation and its limits / David Embick -- A view of the morphome debate / Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and Ana R. Luís
Beschreibung:xii, 376 Seiten
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ISBN:9780198702108
978-0-19-870210-8
0198702108
0-19-870210-8