Editors:
- The first volume with applications and extensions of the model of Construction Morphology to a wide range of languages
- Deals with data from various domains of linguistics, thus contributing to a graceful integration of findings from various sub-disciplines of linguistics into a common model of the architecture of language
- Provides inspiration for further research on the morphological aspects of language
- Offers deeper insight in how to deal with morphology in Construction Grammar approaches to language
Part of the book series: Studies in Morphology (SUMO, volume 4)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Issues
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Front Matter
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Studies of Specific Languages
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Front Matter
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Diachronic Case Studies
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Front Matter
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About this book
This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail. It deals with data from several domains of linguistics and contributes to an integration of findings from various subdisciplines of linguistics into a common model of the architecture of language. It presents applications and extensions of the model of Construction Morphology to a wide range of languages.
Construction Morphology is one of the theoretical paradigms in present-day morphology. It makes use of concepts of Construction Grammar for the analysis of word formation and inflection. Complex words are seen as constructions, that is, pairs of form and meaning. Morphological patterns are accounted for by construction schemas. These are the recipes for coining new words and word forms, and they motivate the properties of existing complex words. Both schemas and individual words are stored, and hence there is no strict separation of lexicon and grammar. In addition to abstract schemas there are subschemas for subclasses of complex words with specific properties. This architecture of the grammar is in harmony with findings from other empirical domains of linguistics such as language acquisition, word processing, and language change.Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
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Leiden University Center of Linguistics, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
Geert Booij
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Construction of Words
Book Subtitle: Advances in Construction Morphology
Editors: Geert Booij
Series Title: Studies in Morphology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74394-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74393-6Published: 26 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08979-5Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74394-3Published: 13 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2214-0042
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0050
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 622
Number of Illustrations: 111 b/w illustrations
Topics: Morphology, Syntax, Lexicology/Vocabulary