Morphology by Itself

Stems and Inflectional Classes

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Mark Aronoff

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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

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In this monograph Mark Aronoff argues that linguists must consider morphology by itself, not merely as an appendage of syntax and phonology, and that linguistic theory must allow for a separate and autonomous morphological component. Following a general introductory chapter, Aronoff examines two narrow classes of morphological phenomena to make his case: stems and inflectional classes. Concentrating first on Latin verb morphology, he argues that morphological stems are neither syntactic nor phonological units. Next, using data from a number of languages, he underscores the traditional point that the inflectional class of a word is not reducible to its syntactic gender. He then explores in detail the phonologically motivated nominal inflectional class system of two languages of Papua New Guinea (Arapesh and Yimas) and the precise nature of the relation between this system and the corresponding gender system. Finally, drawing on a number of Semitic languages, Aronoff argues that the verb classes of these languages are purely inflectional although they are partly motivated by derivational and syntactic considerations.

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Mark Aronoff is Chairman of the Linguistics Department at SUNY, Stony Brook and the author of Word Formation in Generative Grammar (MIT Press, 1976).

Release date Australia

December 2nd, 1993

Author

Mark Aronoff

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

230

Series

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780262510721

Product ID

13837678

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