Overview

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014). It provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of work on inflection - the expression of grammatical information through changes in word forms. The volume's 24 chapters are written by experts in the field from a variety of theoretical backgrounds, with examples drawn from a wide range of languages.The first part of the handbook covers the fundamental building blocks of inflectional form and content: morphemes, features, and means of exponence. Part 2 focuses on what is arguably the most characteristic property of inflectional systems, paradigmatic structure, and the non-trivial nature of the mapping between function and form. The third part deals with change and variation over time, and the fourth part covers computational issues from a theoretical and practical standpoint. Part 5 addresses psycholinguistic questions relating to language acquisition and neurocognitive disorders. The final part is devoted to sketches of individual inflectional systems, illustrating a range of typological possibilities across a genetically diverse set of languages from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Australia, Europe, and South America.

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Author:   Matthew Baerman (Senior Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, Senior Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.208kg
ISBN:  

9780198808619

ISBN 10:   0198808615
Pages:   714
Publication Date:   24 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Matthew Baerman: Introduction Part I: Building Blocks 2: Stephen R. Anderson: The Morpheme: Its Nature and Use 3: Greville G. Corbett: Features in Inflection 4: Jochen Trommer and Eva Zimmermann: Inflectional Exponence Part II: Paradigms and their Variants 5: James P. Blevins: Inflectional Paradigms 6: Gregory Stump: Inflection Classes 7: Matthew Baerman: Paradigmatic Deviations 8: Gunnar Olafur Hansson: Phonology 9: Andrew Spencer and Gergana Popova: Periphrasis and Inflection Part III: Change 10: Claire Bowern: Diachrony 11: Maarten Kossmann: Contact-Induced Change Part IV: Computation 12: Dunstan Brown: Modelling Inflectional Structure 13: Katya Pertsova: Machine Learning of Inflection 14: Ondrej Bojar: Machine Translation Part V: Psycholinguistics 15: Sabine Stoll: Inflectional Morphology in Language Acquisition 16: Matthew Walenski: Disorders Part VI: Sketches of Individual Systems 17: Mark Donohue: Verbal Inflection in Iha: A Multiplicity of Alignments 18: Fiona Mc Laughlin: Inflection in Pulaar 19: Axel Holvoet: Lithuanian Inflection 20: Thomas Stolz: Chamorro Inflection 21: Rachel Nordlinger: Inflection in Murrinh-Patha 22: Matt Coler: Aymara Inflection 23: Nicholas Evans: Inflection in Nen 24: Bert Remijsen, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, and Leoma G. Gilley: Stem-internal and Affixal Morphology in Shilluk References Author Index Language Index Subject Index

Reviews

The handbook ends with a sixty-page bibliography, which is a treasure chest for anybody in-terested in inflectional morphology. There are also three indexes for authors, languages, and sub-jects that make the handbook useful as a reference tool ... the handbook under review is an extremely valuable contribution to morphology — a resource that deserves to be widely used for many years to come. * Tore Nesset, Voprosy Jazykoznanija *

The handbook ends with a sixty-page bibliography, which is a treasure chest for anybody in-terested in inflectional morphology. There are also three indexes for authors, languages, and sub-jects that make the handbook useful as a reference tool ... the handbook under review is an extremely valuable contribution to morphology -- a resource that deserves to be widely used for many years to come. * Tore Nesset, Voprosy Jazykoznanija *

The handbook ends with a sixty-page bibliography, which is a treasure chest for anybody in-terested in inflectional morphology. There are also three indexes for authors, languages, and sub-jects that make the handbook useful as a reference tool ... the handbook under review is an extremely valuable contribution to morphology - a resource that deserves to be widely used for many years to come. * Tore Nesset, Voprosy Jazykoznanija *

Author Information

Matthew Baerman is a senior research fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey. His research focuses on the typology, diachrony, and formal analysis of inflectional systems, with a particular concentration on phenomena whose interpretation is problematic or controversial. His work has appeared in such journals as Language, Journal of Linguistics, Morphology, Lingua, Russian Linguistics and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. He is co-author of The Syntax-Morphology Interface: a Study of Syncretism (CUP, 2005) and co-editor of Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity (OUP, 2014).

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