Morphology: From Data to Theories, 2nd Edition

by Antonio Fábregas, Sergio Scalise

Overview

This textbook provides an in-depth introduction to morphology, while also engaging with the latest research and developments in the field. By presenting the latest theories and highlighting the current challenges in morphology, it offers a firm grounding for starting your own original research and will inspire your own thinking about the morphology of your target languages. It guides you through the context, theories and latest research in morphology with end-of-chapter exercises designed to strengthen your understanding of key topics and suggestions for further reading offered as a starting point for further study.

This second edition incorporates the latest research within morphology, drawing on new research from the fields of psycholinguistics and language acquisition and discussing morphology in relation to syntax, lexical semantics and phonology. It also pays particular attention to the debate between lexicalism and constructionism. With two new chapters on morphology and language acquisition and morphology and psycholinguistics and updated accounts of the claims made within each theory to reflect current research trends, there is so much here to invigorate and inspire your study of morphology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399529723
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	01/31/2025
Series:	Edinburgh Advanced Textbooks in Linguistics
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Antonio Fábregas is Full Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of eight monographs and more than a hundred articles on the structure of words in Romance languages and their interaction with semantics and phonology.

Sergio Scalise is full professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bologna. He has worked exstensively on theoretical morphology and on morphology of Italian, He is director of the Journal “Lingue e Linguaggio” and co-organizer of the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings. He gave courses, seminars and lectures in several universities (Madrid, Barcelona, Girona, Paris, Cambridge, Hamburg, Vienna, Tokyo, New York, Amsterdam, Rome, Budapest, etc.)

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Foreword

1. Morphology: Definitions and Basic Concepts

2. Morphological Units

3. Morphological Structures

4. Inflectional Processes

5. Derivational Processes

6. Compounding and Other Word-Formation Processes

7. Morphology’s Relation to Syntax

8. Morphology’s Relation to Phonology and Semantics

9. Psycholinguistic Issues in Morphology

10. Acquisition and Loss of Morphological Knowledge

Answers to the Exercises
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this new edition of Fabregas and Scalise is an excellent introduction to morphological theory as it has developed over the last four decades. The text offers a comprehensive and well-balanced overview of issues concerning derivation, inflection, and compounding, and new chapters on psycholinguistics and language acquisition.

Rochelle Lieber