Explorations in Seamless Morphology |
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| Editor:
| Singh, Rajendra
Starosta, Stanley |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7619-9594-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2003 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $122.00 |
Book Description:
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The book sets out the seamless approach introduced by linguists at the University of
Montreal. The shared assumptions and principles of the lexicase and Montreal approaches to seamless morphology are apparent in all the essays in this volume.
Seamless morphology maintains that any correlations between shape and the interpretation or distribution of words are to be accounted for in terms of analogical formulae or 'word formation strategies', rather than in terms of...
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The book sets out the seamless approach introduced by linguists at the University of
Montreal. The shared assumptions and principles of the lexicase and Montreal approaches to seamless morphology are apparent in all the essays in this volume.
Seamless morphology maintains that any correlations between shape and the interpretation or distribution of words are to be accounted for in terms of analogical formulae or 'word formation strategies', rather than in terms of hierarchical configurations of 'morphemes'.
The book introduces and develops the thesis that words have no internal grammatical structure and that any correlation between shape and interpretation or distribution are to be accounted for in terms of rules that make no appeal to word-internal boundaries or brackets of the sort that have become popular.
The collection has been divided into several sections. The first group of essays provides a general picture of Ford and Singh's theory of morphology. The second group of essays contains Starosta's response, articulated with the help of several colleagues in the case of Chinese compounds, to the question of the internal structure of compounds and of verbs said to have incorporated nouns. Essays in the third group, by Rainer and Ratcliffe, offer penetrating critiques of the Gesamtbedetung analysis of morphologically complex words. The fourth group of essays consists of responses by Becker, Berder and Dasgupta to the view advocated by Ford and Singh.
The volume demonstrates that over the last five years, with the interaction between
Montreal and Hawaii approaches to whole-word morphology, similarities and
differences have been identified and clarified, and a certain amount of terminological
standardization and convergence has taken place. This volume broadens and accelerates the process, and paves the way for further clarifications and convergence.