Introducing Morphology

A lively introduction to morphology, this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics. It shows students how to find and analyze morphological data and presents them with basic concepts and terminology concerning the mental lexicon, inflection, derivation, morphological typology, productivity, and the interfaces between morphology and syntax on the one hand and phonology on the other. By the end of the text students are ready to understand morphological theory and how to support or refute theoretical proposals. Providing data from a wide variety of languages, the text includes hands-on activities designed to encourage students to gather and analyse their own data. The third edition has been thoroughly updated with new examples and exercises. Chapter 2 now includes an updated detailed introduction to using linguistic corpora, and there is a new final chapter covering several current theoretical frameworks.

Author Biography

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, where she teaches a wide range of courses on theoretical linguistics and the English language. She is the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award (1990), the Lindberg Award for the Outstanding Teacher and Scholar in Liberal Arts at UNH (2013), and the Bloomfield Award given by the Linguistic Society of America for the Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (with Laurie Bauer and Ingo Plag, 2015). She is the author of four monographs, over fifty articles, and book chapters on morphology and related topics, and is the co-editor of three handbooks on morphology.