The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology

Laurie Bauer (Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington),Rochelle Lieber (Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire),Ingo Plag (Professor of Linguistics at the University of Dusseldorf)

The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 July 2015
Pages
720
ISBN
9780198747062

The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology

Laurie Bauer (Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington),Rochelle Lieber (Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire),Ingo Plag (Professor of Linguistics at the University of Dusseldorf)

This volume presents a data-rich description of English inflection and word-formation. Based on large corpora including the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British national Corpus, it is the first comprehensive treatment of contemporary English morphology that includes both inflection and word-formation. It covers not only well-studied topics such as compounding, conversion, and the inflection and derivation of nouns and verbs, but also areas that have received less scholarly attention, such as the formation of adjectives, locatives, negatives, evaluatives, neoclassical compounds and blends, among many other topics. Equal wieght is given to form and meaning. The volume also contains sections devoted to phonological and orthographics aspects of morphology and to combinatorial and paradigmatic properties of English morphology. It ends with a series of chapters that assess the implications of English morphology for morphological theory, discussing topics such as stratification, blocking and comprtition, the analysis of conversion, and the relationship between inflection and derivation.Winner of the 2015 Bloomfield Book Award and written by three outstanding scholars, this outstanding book will interest all scholars and students of English and of linguistic morphology more generally.

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