The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory

by Jenny Audring (Editor), Francesca Masini (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199668984
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2019
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Jenny Audring is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Leiden University. She specializes in morphology and has written extensively on grammatical gender. Her research interests range from linguistic complexity and Canonical Typology to Construction Morphology and morphological theory. She is the co-editor, with Sebastian Fedden and Greville G. Corbett, of Non-Canonical Gender Systems (OUP 2018) and co-author, with Ray Jackendoff, of a forthcoming OUP monograph on the texture of the mental lexicon.

Francesca Masini is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Her research interests are in semantics, morphology and the lexicon, primarily within Construction Grammar and Construction Morphology. Her main focus is on multiword expressions, word classes, lexical typology, and the lexicon-syntax interface. She is currently Associate Editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology, a special project of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Theory and theories in morphology, Jenny Audring and Francesca MasiniPART I: Issues in morphology2. A short history of morphological theory, Stephen R. Anderson3. Theoretical issues in word formation, Rochelle Lieber4. Theoretical issues in inflection, Gregory StumpPART II: Morphological theories5. Structuralism, Thomas Stewart6. Early Generative Grammar, Pius ten Hacken7. Later Generative Grammar and beyond: Lexicalism, Fabio Montermini8. Distributed Morphology, Daniel Siddiqi9. Minimalism in morphological theories, Antonio Fabregas10. Optimality Theory and Prosodic Morphology, Laura J. Downing11. Morphology in LFG and HPSG, Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler12. Natural Morphology, Livio Gaeta13. Word and Paradigm Morphology, James P. Blevins, Farrell Ackerman, and Robert Malouf14. Paradigm Function Morphology, Gregory Stump15. Network Morphology, Dunstan Brown16. Word Grammar Morphology, Nikolas Gisborne17. Morphology in Cognitive Grammar, Ronald W. Langacker18. Construction Morphology, Francesca Masini and Jenny Audring19. Relational Morphology in the Parallel Architecture, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring20. Canonical Typology, Oliver BondPART III: Morphological theory and other fields21. Morphological theory and typology, Peter Arkadiev and Marian Klamer22. Morphological theory and creole languages, Ana R. Luis23. Morphological theory and diachronic change, Matthias Huning24. Morphological theory and synchronic variation, Angela Ralli25. Morphological theory and first language acquisition, Elma Blom26. Morphological theory and second language acquisition, John Archibald and Gary Libben27. Morphological theory and psycholinguistics, Christina Gagne and Thomas Spalding28. Morphological theory and neurolinguistics, Niels O. Schiller and Rinus G. Verdonschot29. Morphological theory and computational linguistics, Vito Pirrelli30. Morphological theory and sign languages, Donna Jo NapoliReferencesIndex