The Handbook of Morphology (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)

Interest in morphology has undergone rapid growth over the past two decades and the area is now seen as crucially important, both in relation to other aspects of grammar and in relation to other disciplines. Cover 1 Halftitle 2 Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics 3 Title 4 Copyright © 1998 5 ISBN 5 CONTENTS 6 CONTRIBUTORS 9 ABBREVIATIONS 13 INTRODUCTION 21 PART I THE PHENOMENA 31 1 Inflection 33 2 Derivation 64 3 Compounding 86 4 Incorporation 104 5 Clitics 121 6 Morphophonological Operations 143 7 Phonological Constraints on Morphological Rules 164 PART II MORPHOLOGY AND GRAMMAR 169 8 Morphology and Syntax 171 9 Morphology and Agreement 211 10 Morphology and Argument Structure 226 11 Morphology and the Lexicon: Lexicalization and Productivity 257 12 Morphology and Lexical Semantics 268 13 Morphology and Pragmatics 292 PART III THEORETICAL ISSUES 301 14 Prosodic Morphology 303 15 Word Syntax 326 16 Paradigmatic Structure: Inflectional Paradigms and Morphological Classes 342 17 Morphology as Component or Module: Mapping Principle Approaches 355 PART IV MORPHOLOGY IN A WIDER SETTING 369 18 Diachronic Morphology 371 19 Morphology in Language Acquisition 394 20 Morphology and Aphasia 410 21 Morphology in Word Recognition 426 22 Morphology in Language Production with Special Reference to Connectionism 448 PART V MORPHOLOGICAL SKETCHES OF INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGES 473 23 Archi (Caucasian Daghestanian) 475 24 Celtic (Indo-European) 497 25 Chichewa (Bantu) 520 26 Chukchee (Paleo-Siberian) 541 27 Hua (Papuan) 559 28 Malagasy (Austronesian) 583 29 Qafar (East Cushitic) 644 30 Slave (Northern Athapaskan) 668 31 Wari' (Amazonian) 710 32 Warumungu (Australian Pama-Nyungan) 727 REFERENCES 757 SUBJECT INDEX 811 AUTHOR INDEX 879 Topics range from traditional issues such as inflection, derivation, the relationship between morphology and phonology, syntax and semantics, and productivity to specific questions and to the role of morphology in a wider perspective