Jan Don

Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A textbook introduction to morphological theory in the context of English. It offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics an accessible entry point to the primary literature in the field of morphology. It specifically focuses on generative theories of morphology.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780748645121
• ISBN-10: 0748645128
• Artikelnr.: 40335578

Autorenporträt

Jan Don is an associate professor of the University of Amsterdam. He graduated from Utrecht University in 1993 with a dissertation on morphological conversion. Since he has published several papers on the morphology of Dutch and some more theoretical contributions. He was co-editor of Parts of Speech, a volume on the theory of word-classes. Recently, he was co-editor of an introduction to linguistics for Dutch students.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Knowledge of Words
2. Word-formation in the lexicon
3. Inflectional morphology
4. Argument-structure: nominalization
5. Argument-structure: derived verbs
6. Analogy, Storage and rules
Suggestions for further reading
Exercises.