Inflectional Morphology: A Theoretical Study Based on Aspects of Latin Verb Conjugation

by P. H. Matthews

Overview

Originally published in 1972, this was the most thorough discussion of morphological theory to appear in recent years, and one of the few to be based directly on an 'inflecting' or 'fusional' language - in this case Latin. The book is addressed to theoretical and descriptive linguists in general and no knowledge of Latin is assumed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521290654
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/08/1976
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics , #6
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Preamble; 2. The scope of a linguistic theory; 3. Evaluating morphological theories; Part II. Models of Inflectional Morphology: 4. Item and arrangement morphology: introductory remarks; 5. Item and arrangement morphology: an outline formation; 6. Characteristic problems of inflecting languages; 7. Item and arrangement versus word and paradigm; Part III. Towards a Generative Formulation: 8. Preamble; 9. Word and paradigm morphology: model and morpholexical rules; 10. Some outstanding problems in morphophonemics; Part IV. Towards an Evaluation Procedure: 11. Preamble; 12. Formal economy; 13. Some alternative possibilities in morpholexics; 14. Problems of evaluation in morphophonemics; 15. Concluding observations; Appendices; References; Indices.