Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-957926-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 702 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1370 g

This book presents a comprehensive, data-rich, theory-neutral description of English word formation, including inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and such minor processes as subtractive morphology. It also offers analyses of the theoretical challenges these phenomena present. It is the first to make systematic use of large linguistic corpora, including the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the British National Corpus, and the American National Corpus by which, for example, the authors are able to measure the productivity of different patterns and to trace semantic developments as they happen.

After setting out their methodology and theoretical assumptions, the authors describe word formation and inflection in contemporary English. They give equal weight to form and meaning and cover nominalizations, agentive forms, comparatives, root and synthetic compounds, as well as more recondite topics such as the abstract noun-forming suffixes -hood, -dom, and -ship, neoclassical compounds, and the morphology of numbers. They examine the relations between orthography and phonological form. While their focus is on contemporary morphology, they trace the history of phenomena wherever doing so helps to understand and explain current form and function. The final part of the book shows how the data assembled within it bear on current theoretical issues and reveal new lines of research. This outstanding book will interest all scholars and students of English and of linguistic morphology more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauer, Laurie

Lieber, Rochelle

Plag, Ingo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I - Introduction

- 1: Aims and Structures

- 2: Basic principles: terminology

- 3: Basic principles: methods

- 4: Orthography

- Part II - Inflection

- 5: Verb inflection

- 6: Adjective and adverb inflection

- 7: Noun inflection

- 8: Function words: pronouns, determiners, why-forms, deictics

- Part III - Derivation

- 9: Derivation: phonological considerations

- 10: Derived nouns: event, state, result

- 11: Derived nouns: personal and participant

- 12: Derived nouns: quality, collective, and other abstracts

- 13: Derived verbs

- 14: Derived adjectives

- 15: Derived adverbs

- 16: Locatives of time and space

- 17: Negatives

- 18: Size, quantity, and attitude

- Part IV Compounding

- 19: Compounds: formal considerations

- 20: Compounds: semantic considerations

- Part V Interaction

- 21: Combination of affixes

- 22: Affi xation on compounds and phrases

- 23: Paradigmatic processes

- Part VI Themes

- 24: Inflection versus derivation

- 25: The analysis and limits of conversion

- 26: Blocking, competition, and productivity

- 27: The nature of stratifi cation

- 28: English morphology in a typological perspective

- 29: English morphology and theories of morphology

- References

- Index of affixes and other formatives

- Index of names

- Index of subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. His books include English Word-formation (CUP 1983), Introducing Linguistic Morphology (2nd edn EUP 2003), Morphological Productivity (CUP 2001) and A Glossary of Morphology (EUP 2004). He is one of the editors of the journal Word Structure.

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire and author of Deconstructing Morphology (Chicago 1992), Morphology and Lexical Semantics (CUP 2004), and Introducing Morphology (CUP 2009). She is co-editor with Pavol Stekauer of the Oxford Handbooks of Compounding and Derivational Morphology (OUP 2009 and 2013).

Ingo Plag is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. His books include Morphological Productivity (Mouton de Gruyter 1999), Word-formation in English (CUP 2003), and Introduction to English Linguistics (with co-authors, Mouton de Gruyter 2009). He is co-editor of the journal Morphology.