The Oxford handbook of derivational morphology / edited by Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Štekauer.

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English
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First edition.
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  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • ©2014
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xxvi, 927 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

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    This volume provides a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. Chapters cover theoretical and definitional matters, formal and semantic issues, interdisciplinary connections, and detailed descriptions of derivational processes in a wide range of language families.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 787-884) and indexes.
    Contents
    PART I ; 1. Introduction: The scope of the handbooks ; 2. Delineating derivation and inflection ; 3. Delineating derivation and compounding ; 4. Theoretical approaches to derivation ; 5. Productivity, blocking, and lexicalization ; 6. Methodological issues in studying derivation ; 7. Experimental and psycholinguistic approaches ; 8. Concatenative derivation ; 9 Infixation ; 10. Conversion ; 11. Non-concatenative derivation: Reduplication 12. Non-concatenative derivation: Other processes ; 13. Allomorphy ; 14. Nominal derivation ; 15. Verbal derivation ; 16. Adjectival and adverbial derivation ; 17. Evaluative derivation ; 18. Derivation and function words ; 1 Homophony versus polysemy in derivation ; 20. Derivational paradigms ; 21. Affix ordering in derivation ; 22. Derivation and historical change ; 23. Derivation in a social context ; 24. Acquisition of derivational morphology ; PART II ; 25. Indo-European ; 26. Uralic ; 27. Altaic ; 28. Yeniseian ; 29. Mon-Khmer ; 30. Austronesian ; 31. Niger-Congo ; 32. Afro-Asiatic ; 33. Nilo-Saharan ; 34. Sino-Tibetan ; 35. Pama-Nyungan ; 36. Athabaskan ; 37. Eskimo-Aleut ; 38. Uto-Aztecan ; 39. Matacoan ; 40. Areal tendencies in derivation ; 41. Universals in derivation
    Other title(s)
    Derivational morphology
    ISBN
    • 9780199641642 ((hbk.))
    • 0199641641 ((hbk.))
    LCCN
    2014938927
    OCLC
    867752995
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