Morphology : a Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form.

This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that c...

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Main Author: Bybee, Joan L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985.
Series:Typological studies in language.
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Table of Contents:
  • MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; Editorial page; Editorial page; Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Copyright page; PREFACE; PREFACE; Table of contents; Table of contents; PART I: MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHO-PHONEMICS; PART I: MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHO-PHONEMICS; CHAPTER I: TOWARD EXPLANATION IN MORPHOLOGY; CHAPTER I: TOWARD EXPLANATION IN MORPHOLOGY; CHAPTER 2: SEMANTIC DETERMINANTS OF INFLECTIONAL EXPRESSION; CHAPTER 2: SEMANTIC DETERMINANTS OF INFLECTIONAL EXPRESSION; CHAPTER 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF PARADIGMS; CHAPTER 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF PARADIGMS.