Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Principal references
- 1 What is morphology?
- 2 Word, word-form and lexeme
- 3 Inflections and word-formation
- 4 Lexical derivation
- 5 Compounds
- 6 Morphemes and allomorphs
- 7 Morphological processes
- 8 Morphophonemics
- 9 Properties and their exponents
- 10 Paradigms
- 11 Inflectional morphology and syntax
- 12 Iconicity
- Index
Preface to the first edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Principal references
- 1 What is morphology?
- 2 Word, word-form and lexeme
- 3 Inflections and word-formation
- 4 Lexical derivation
- 5 Compounds
- 6 Morphemes and allomorphs
- 7 Morphological processes
- 8 Morphophonemics
- 9 Properties and their exponents
- 10 Paradigms
- 11 Inflectional morphology and syntax
- 12 Iconicity
- Index
Summary
This was first conceived as a partial editio minor of my recent Inflectional Morphology (in the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). But it has become, I think, a little more interesting. I hope that it will be of value to specialists in particular European languages, as well as to postgraduate and undergraduate students of general linguistics.
I am very grateful to my colleagues R. W. P. Brasington, D. Crystal, G. C. Lepschy, F. R. Palmer, K. M. Petyt and Irene P. Warburton, who read the book in typescript and have helped me to make a number of corrections and improvements. I look forward with pleasure to a fresh collaboration with the University Printers, who set my first book so beautifully.
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- Morphology , pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991