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• 1. Canonical morphotactics
• 2. Rule combinations
• 3. Dependent rules and carrier rules
• 4. Rule composition and rule ordering
• 5. Extending canonical morphotactic criteria to composite rules
• 6. Rule combinations expressing holistic content
• 7. Rule aggregation
• 8. Complex morphotactic interactions in Swahili
• 9. The non-associativity of rule composition in Murrinhpatha
• 10. Potentiation and counterpotentiation
• 11. Rule combinations and morphological simplicity
• 12. Rule-combining morphotactics and morphological theories
• 13. Conclusions.
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The study of morphology is central to linguistics, and morphotactics - the general principles by which the parts of a word form are arranged - is essential to the study of morphology. Drawing on evidence from a range of languages, this is a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the principles of morphotactic analysis. Stump proposes that the arrangement of word forms' grammatically significant parts is an expression of the ways in which a language's morphological rules combine with one another to form more specific rules. This rule-combining approach to morphotactics has important implications for the synchronic analysis of both inflectional and derivational morphology, and it provides a solid conceptual platform for understanding both the processing of morphologically complex words and the paths of morphological change. Laying the groundwork for future research on morphotactic analysis, this is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in linguistics, and anyone interested in understanding language structure.
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• 1. Canonical morphotactics
• 2. Rule combinations
• 3. Dependent rules and carrier rules
• 4. Rule composition and rule ordering
• 5. Extending canonical morphotactic criteria to composite rules
• 6. Rule combinations expressing holistic content
• 7. Rule aggregation
• 8. Complex morphotactic interactions in Swahili
• 9. The non-associativity of rule composition in Murrinhpatha
• 10. Potentiation and counterpotentiation
• 11. Rule combinations and morphological simplicity
• 12. Rule-combining morphotactics and morphological theories
• 13. Conclusions.
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The study of morphology is central to linguistics, and morphotactics - the general principles by which the parts of a word form are arranged - is essential to the study of morphology. Drawing on evidence from a range of languages, this is a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the principles of morphotactic analysis. Stump proposes that the arrangement of word forms' grammatically significant parts is an expression of the ways in which a language's morphological rules combine with one another to form more specific rules. This rule-combining approach to morphotactics has important implications for the synchronic analysis of both inflectional and derivational morphology, and it provides a solid conceptual platform for understanding both the processing of morphologically complex words and the paths of morphological change. Laying the groundwork for future research on morphotactic analysis, this is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in linguistics, and anyone interested in understanding language structure.
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"The term morphology is generally attributed to the German poet, novelist, playwright, and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), who coined it early in the nineteenth century in a biological context. Its etymology is Greek. Morph- means 'shape, form', and morphology is the study of form or forms. In biology morphology refers to the study of the form and structure of organisms, and in geology it refers to the study of the configuration and evolution of land forms. In linguistics morphology refers to the mental system involved in word formation or to the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1: Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardani: Introduction: Complexities in morphology Part I: The language-specific perspective
• 2: Jeff Parker and Andrea D. Sims: Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems: A study of Russian nouns
• 3: John Mansfield and Rachel Nordlinger: Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha
• 4: Felicity Meakins and Sasha Wilmoth: Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol
• 5: Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, and Delphine Tribout: Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles
• 6: Michele Loporcaro: Simplification and complexification in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax Part II: The crosslinguistic perspective
• 7: Johanna Nichols: Canonical complexity
• 8: Francesca Di Garbo: The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology
• 9: Adam J. R. Tallman and Patience Epps: Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia Part III: The acquisitional perspective
• 10: John H. McWhorter: Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition
• 11: Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Arturs Semenuks: Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning
• 12: Marianne Mithun: Where is morphological complexity?
• 13: OEsten Dahl: Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach.
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This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured. The book opens with a detailed introduction from the editors that critically assesses the foundational assumptions that inform contemporary approaches to morphological complexity. In the chapters that follow, the volume's expert contributors approach the topic from typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives; the concluding chapter offers an overview of these various approaches, with a focus on the minimum description length principle. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from both well-known languages such as Russian and lesser-studied languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
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• 1: Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardani: Introduction: Complexities in morphology Part I: The language-specific perspective
• 2: Jeff Parker and Andrea D. Sims: Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems: A study of Russian nouns
• 3: John Mansfield and Rachel Nordlinger: Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha
• 4: Felicity Meakins and Sasha Wilmoth: Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol
• 5: Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, and Delphine Tribout: Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles
• 6: Michele Loporcaro: Simplification and complexification in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax Part II: The crosslinguistic perspective
• 7: Johanna Nichols: Canonical complexity
• 8: Francesca Di Garbo: The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology
• 9: Adam J. R. Tallman and Patience Epps: Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia Part III: The acquisitional perspective
• 10: John H. McWhorter: Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition
• 11: Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Arturs Semenuks: Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning
• 12: Marianne Mithun: Where is morphological complexity?
• 13: OEsten Dahl: Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach.
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This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured. The book opens with a detailed introduction from the editors that critically assesses the foundational assumptions that inform contemporary approaches to morphological complexity. In the chapters that follow, the volume's expert contributors approach the topic from typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives; the concluding chapter offers an overview of these various approaches, with a focus on the minimum description length principle. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from both well-known languages such as Russian and lesser-studied languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
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This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology. Following an introduction from the editors, the first part of the volume offers critical discussions of the main theoretical issues within morphology, both in word formation and in inflection, as well as providing a short history of morphological theory. In the core part of the handbook, part II, each theory is introduced by an expert in the field, who guides the reader through its principles and technicalities, its advantages and disadvantages, and its points of agreement and disagreement with alternative theories. Chapters in part III explore the bigger picture, connecting morphological theory to other subdisciplines of linguistics, such as diachronic change, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sign language theory. The handbook is intended as a guide for morphologists from all theoretical backgrounds who want to learn more about frameworks other than their own, as well as for linguists in related subfields looking for theoretical connections with the field of morphology.
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• Cover
• Rethinking Morphology
• Copyrihgt
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and notational conventions
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Morpheme-based morphology
• 3 Word-based morphology
• 4 Word syntax
• 5 The phonological correlates of concatenation
• 6 The borders of morphology
• 7 Exemplars and resonances
• Glossary
• References
• Index

Presents a new way of thinking about morphological structure based on psycholinguistic principles.
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• Cover
• Rethinking Morphology
• Copyrihgt
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and notational conventions
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Morpheme-based morphology
• 3 Word-based morphology
• 4 Word syntax
• 5 The phonological correlates of concatenation
• 6 The borders of morphology
• 7 Exemplars and resonances
• Glossary
• References
• Index

Presents a new way of thinking about morphological structure based on psycholinguistic principles.
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Chapters in this volume describe morphology using four different frameworks that have an architectural property in common: they all use defaults as a way of discovering and presenting systematicity in the least systematic component of grammar. These frameworks - Construction Morphology, Network Morphology, Paradigm-function Morphology, and Word Grammar - display key differences in how they constrain the use and scope of defaults, and in the morphological phenomena that they address. An introductory chapter presents an overview of defaults in linguistics and specifically in morphology. In subsequent chapters, key proponents of the four frameworks seek to answer questions about the role of defaults in the lexicon, including: Does a defaults-based account of language have implications for the architecture of the grammar, particularly the proposal that morphology is an autonomous component? How does a default differ from the canonical or prototypical in morphology? Do defaults have a psychological basis? And how do defaults help us understand language as a sign-based system that is flawed, where the one to one association of form and meaning breaks down in the morphology?
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• Foreword
• 1. Opening the Discussion
• 2. Theory profiles
• 3. Time for a test drive
• 4. Broadening the Discussion
• Bibliography.
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In spite of the central position that the concept word has among the basic units of language structure, there is no consensus as to the definition of this concept (or network of related concepts). Many perspectives are needed in order to gain even a schematic idea of what words are, how words may be composed, and what relationships there might be between words. Many linguists have put forward frameworks for describing the domain of morphology, each framework proceeding from its author's assumptions, prioritising distinct formal and functional dimensions, and therefore entering into de facto competition. This book addresses the needs of the language scholar/student who finds her/ himself engaged in morphological analysis and theorising. It offers a guide to existing approaches, revealing how they can either complement or compete with each other.
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By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues, such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.
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This book reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology. This handbook covers the field of evalautive morphology i.e. the morphological processes used in word formation of diminutives, augmentatives, prejoratives and amelioratives. It maps the theoretical achievements in the field and offers innovative approaches to the major questions. Its discusses the scope of evaluative morphology, its formal, semantic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and word formation issues and its relation to child language acquistion. It covers both the synchronic method and dischronic perspective, and analyses evaluative morphology in selected language families. The majority of chapters make use of extensive databases to support theoretical considerations with relevant, empirical data in order to provide a comprehensive and in depth picture of the field. Divided into 2 distinct parts, the handbook begins with 13 chapters discussing evaluative morphology in relation to areas such as pragmatics, semantics, linguistic universals and sociolinguistics. The second part is comprised of descriptive chapters, broken into the following subsets: Eurasia, South East Asia and Oceania, Australia New Guinea, Africa, North America and South America. This is the first volume to comprehensively review and evaluate the field. It's theoretical chapters are based on extensive language samples. It explains on going professional development and practice based and action research. It features 70 contributors based in 31 different countries: Basque, Catalan, Georgian, Hungarian, Israeli Hebrew, Ket, Latvian, Luxemburgeois, Modern Greek, Nivkh, Persian, Slovak, Swedish, Tatar, Telugu, Udihe, Apma, Chinese, Lisu, Muna, Tagalog, Tibetan, Yami, Dalabon, Iatmul, Jingulu, Kaurna, Rembarrnga, Warlpiri, Yukulta and its relatives Kayardild and Lardil, Berber, Classical and Moroccan Arabic, Ewe, Konni, Selee, Shona, Somali, Zulu, Choctaw, Dena'ina, Huave, Inuktitut, Plains Cree, Slavey, Cabecar, Jaqaru, Kwaza, Lule, Huautla Mazatec, Toba, Wichi, and, Yurakare.
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This book presents the results of the first interdisciplinary approach to evaluative morphology based on the intersection of evaluative morphology and areal typology, and provides the first large-scale typological research based on a sample of 200 languages. Furthermore, it also represents the first work dealing with evaluative morphology as a feature of Standard Average European by comparing the SAE and world samples. Methodologically, it introduces the parameter of Evaluative Morphology Saturation, which identifies the richness of evaluative morphology in individual languages by reflecting the semantic, word-class and word-formation aspects of evaluative morphology. As such, this book provides a new and innovative approach to studying the semantics of evaluative morphology and evaluative-formation, represented by two cognitively founded models, a radial model of EM semantics and a model of evaluative formation. It is also the first contrastive psycholinguistic work that studies phonetic iconicity in evaluative morphology by way of experimental research into five different age groups of informants speaking three different languages.
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• PART I: WHAT IS LINGUISTIC MORPHOLOGY
• 1. Morphology: basic notions
• 2. Morphological Analysis
• PART II: WORD-FORMATION
• 3. Derivation
• 4. Compounding
• PART III: INFLECTION
• 5. Inflection
• 6. Inflectional Systems
• PART IV: INTERFACES
• 7. The Interface Between Morphology and Phonology
• 8. Morphology and Syntax: demarcation and interaction
• 9. Morphology and Semantics
• PART V: MORPHOLOGY AND MIND
• 10. Morphology and Psycholinguistics
• 11. Morphology and Language Change
• PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
• 12. The Word as a Linguistic Unit
• Answers to questions
• Glossary of terms
• References
• Language index
• Index of terms.
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Geert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a third edition. The book covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of words. It is the only introductory text to explore the role of morphology in language processing and language change, and also deals with the relation between morphology and other modules of grammar. The book includes a full glossary and exercises with answers. - revised and updated - with a glossary of terms - exercises and suggestions for further reading - the clearest and most readable text on the market.
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• 1. List of contributors
• 2. Preface
• 3. Introduction: Morphology and its interfaces (by Galani, Alexandra)
• 4. Part 1. Interfaces with syntax and phonology
• 5. Case conflict in Greek free relatives: Case in syntax and morphology (by Spyropoulos, Vassilios)
• 6. There are no special clitics (by Bermudez-Otero, Ricardo)
• 7. Inflectional morphology and syntax in correspondence: Evidence from European Portuguese (by Luis, Ana R.)
• 8. At the boundary of morphology and syntax: Noun noun constructions in English (by Bell, Melanie J.)
• 9. Part 2. Interfaces with semantics and the lexicon
• 10. The feature of tense at the interface of morphology and semantics (by Kibort, Anna)
• 11. The aspectual properties of nominalization structures (by Alexiadou, Artemis)
• 12. Determiner and Noun phrase coordination in modern Greek (by Kazana, Despina)
• 13. The pre-conditions for suppletion (by Borjars, Kersti)
• 14. Archi morphology from a lexicographic perspective (by Chumakina, Marina)
• 15. Part 3. Interfaces in psycholinguistics and language acquisition
• 16. Morphology and syntax dissociation in SLA: A study on clitic acquisition in Spanish (by Arche, Maria J.)
• 17. The role of morphology in grammatical gender assignment: A psycholinguistic study in Greek (by Varlokosta, Spyridoula)
• 18. Index.
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One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls together research into Morphology and its interfaces from researchers employing a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: Morphology is a diverse field, and rather than aiming to collect works sharing a particular approach or framework of assumptions, this collection instead captures the diversity and provides an overview of the state of the research field while also addressing particular empirical phenomena with up-to-date analyses. The articles collected provide case studies from a diverse variety of languages revealing properties of the interfaces that morphology shares with syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon, while the volume's inclusive cross-theoretical approach will serve to introduce readers to the findings of alternative frameworks and methodologies.
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• Preface viii Acknowledgments xiv Abbreviations xv Remarks on Transcription xviii The International Phonetic Alphabet xx 1 Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis 1 1.1 What is Morphology? 1 1.2 Morphemes 2 1.3 Morphology in Action 4 1.4 Background and Beliefs 10 1.5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis 12 1.6 Summary 22 Introduction to Kujamaat Joola 23 Further Reading 26 Exercises 27 2 Words and Lexemes 33 2.1 What is a Word? 34 2.2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood 38 2.3 Types of Words 40 2.4 Inflection vs. Derivation 47 2.5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process 49 2.6 The Lexicon 54 2.7 Summary 57 Kujamaat Joola Noun Classes 58 Further Reading 67 Exercises 68 3 Morphology and Phonology 73 3.1 Allomorphs 74 3.2 Prosodic Morphology 78 3.3 Primary and Secondary Affixes 82 3.4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy 86 3.5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages 93 3.6 Summary 95 Kujamaat Joola Morphophonology 96 Further Reading 103 Exercises 104 4 Derivation and the Lexicon 109 4.1 The Saussurean Sign 109 4.2 Motivation and Compositionality 110 4.3 Derivation and Structure 123 4.4 Summary 130 Derivation in Kujamaat Joola 131 Further Reading 132 Exercises 133 5 Derivation and Semantics 136 5.1 The Polysemy Problem 137 5.2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes 139 5.3 Summary 147 Derivation and Verbs in Kujamaat Joola 148 Further Reading 151 Exercises 152 6 Inflection 157 6.1 What is Inflection? 159 6.2 Inflection vs. Derivation 168 6.3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types 171 6.4 Syncretism 177 6.5 Typology 178 6.6 Summary 180 Agreement in Kujamaat Joola 182 Further Reading 187 Exercises 189 7 Morphology and Syntax 196 7.1 Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection 197 7.2 Structural Constraints on Morphological Inflection 198 7.3 Inflection and Universal Grammar 201 7.4 Grammatical Function Change 203 7.5 Summary 209 Kujamaat Joola Verb Morphology 212 A Brief Survey of Kujamaat Joola Syntax 219 Further Reading 222 Exercises 223 8 Morphological Productivity and the Mental Lexicon 226 8.1 What is Morphological Productivity? 227 8.2 Productivity and Structure: Negative Prefixes in English 230 8.3 Degrees of Productivity 231 8.4 Salience and Productivity 236 8.5 Testing Productivity 238 8.6 The Mental Lexicon, Psycholinguistics, and Neurolinguistics 246 8.7 Conclusion 252 Further Reading 253 Exercises 254 Glossary 258 References 273 Index 280.
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What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology, which has been revised and expanded to include additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, experimental and computational methods, and new teaching material. * Introduces the fundamental aspects of morphology to students with minimal background in linguistics * Includes additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, and experimental and computational methods * Features new and revised exercises as well as suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter * Equips students with the skills to analyze a wide breadth of classic morphological issues through engaging examples * Uses cross-linguistic data throughout to illustrate concepts, specifically referencing Kujamaat Joola, a Senegalese language * Includes a new answer key, available for instructors online at http://www.wiley.com/go/aronoff.
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• 1. Morphology and Construction Grammar
• 2. The Lexicon as a Network of Relations
• 3. Schemas and Subschemas in the Lexicon
• 4. Quasi-noun Incorporation
• 5. Separable Complex Verbs
• 6. Progressive Constructions
• 7. Phrasal Names
• 8. Numerals as Lexical Constructions
• 9. Construction-Dependent Morphology
• 10. Stem Allomorphy and Morphological Relatedness
• 11. Taking Stock
• References
• Index.
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This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical units can be analysed as constructions, as pairings of forms and meanings. It contributes to current work on the architecture of the grammar, the morphology-syntax interface, the shape and characteristics of the lexicon, and the analysis of grammaticalization phenomena. It is an important work for morphological theory in particular and for linguistic theory in general. Geert Booij applies the insights of construction grammar to morphological theory and the formation of words and lexical phrases. Construction grammar refers to the class of linguistic theories that focus on the pairing of form and meaning at different levels of abstraction. Such work (by William Croft and Adele Goldberg, for example) has tended to focus on syntax or (as in the case of Ray Jackendoff) on the syntax-semantics interface. Geert Booij offers a characteristically lucid integration of his own and others' work and considers what it reveals about the nature of words and idioms. His book will appeal to professional linguists in all subfields and to graduate students of syntax and morphology.
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• 1. What is morphology?
• 2. Words, dictionaries, and the mental lexicon
• 3. Lexeme formation - the familiar
• 4. Productivity and creativity
• 5. Lexeme formation: further afield
• 6. Inflection
• 7. Typology
• 8. Words and sentences: the interface between morphology and syntax
• 9. Sounds and shapes: the interface between morphology and phonology
• 10. Theoretical challenges.
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Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject, this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics. Providing data from a wide variety of languages, it includes hands-on activities such as 'challenge boxes', designed to encourage students to gather their own data and analyse it, work with data on websites, perform simple experiments, and discuss topics with each other. There is also an extensive introduction to the terms and concepts necessary for analysing words. Topics such as the mental lexicon, derivation, compounding, inflection, morphological typology, productivity, and the interface of morphology with syntax and phonology expose students to the whole scope of the field. Unlike other textbooks it anticipates the question 'Is it a real word?' and tackles it head on by looking at the distinction between dictionaries and the mental lexicon.
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