Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology: A General Theory of Inflection and Word Formation (SUNY series in Linguistics)

This is the first complete theory of the morphology of language, a compendium of information on morphological categories and operations.This book is the first complete theory of the morphology of language. It describes both inflection and lexical word formation, their relation to syntax, phonology, and semantics, and to each other. It enumerates most of the morphological categories of the world's languages, describing their recombinant abilities, and how they are realized in inflectional and lexical derivations.Robert Beard is the Director of the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University. Cover 1 SUNY Series in Linguistics 3 Title 4 © 1995 5 ISBN 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Preface 10 List of Figures 12 List of Tables 14 List of Symbols 16 Chapter One 18 Chapter Two 36 Chapter Three 60 Chapter Four 90 Chapter Six 142 Chapter Seven 172 Chapter Eight 194 Chapter Nine 222 Chapter Ten 246 Chapter Eleven 270 Chapter Twelve 296 Chapter Thirteen 322 Chapter Fourteen 344 Chapter Fifteen 370 Chapter Sixteen 394 Appendix A 408 Appendix B 416 Appendix C 418 Bibliography 420 Author Index 436 Language Index 446 Subject Index 455 Robert Beard. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 401-415) And Indexes.