Current Morphology (Linguistic Theory Guides) - Softcover

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

9780415071185: Current Morphology (Linguistic Theory Guides)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415071186 ISBN 13: 9780415071185

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

"Current Morphology" provides a thorough and wide-ranging introduction to approaches to morphology within linguistic theory over the last twenty years. This comprehensive survey concentrates not only on the generative linguistic mainstream, discussing the lexicalist morphology initiated by Chomsky and the syntactically orientated approaches that have developed in the 1980s, but on approaches that are less fashionable or relatively unknown to English-speaking linguists. It highlights neglected European theoretical developments, focusing on German-speaking as well as English-speaking countries. The author's critical approach analyzes as well as identifies the issues to give an overview of current morphology. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of linguistics, particularly morphology, but also practising linguists such as syntacticians and phonologists.

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About the Author:

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy teaches Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Review:

'It's a superb summary and guide to the literature, as well as being elegantly and clearly argued: the chapter on typology is as good as I can imagine a chapter being.' - Roger Lass, University of Capetown, South Africa

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