Jan Don

Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

EDINBURGH TEXTBOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - ADVANCED Series Editor: Heinz Giegerich Books in this series provide readers with a detailed description and explanation of key areas of English Language study. The authors presuppose a basic working knowledge of the topic and explore aspects of the linguistics of English for an intermediate or advanced student readership. Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English Jan Don 'Jan Don's lucid and down-to-earth discussion of core phenomena in English morphology is an ideal introduction for advanced students who have the ambition of reading recent primary literature in this area. Don does an excellent job of explaining what problems researchers have been working on, and why. His evaluation of proposed solutions is balanced and insightful. Theoretically informed, unpretentious and fun.' Ad Neeleman, Department of Linguistics, UCL This introduction to morphology offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics an accessible entry point to the primary literature in the field of morphology. The book specifically focuses on generative theories of morphology. It offers a thorough introduction to the many issues which have shaped the field of morphology over the last few decades and in doing so prepares students for further reading and research in the subject. Topics covered include derivation versus inflection, lexical versus syntactic models of morphology, synthetic compounds and storage versus computation. Each chapter provides the reader with suggestions for further reading as well as exercises designed to test understanding of this complex and fascinating field. Jan Don is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780748645138
• ISBN-10: 0748645136
• Artikelnr.: 40403614

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.