The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. The handbook begins with an overview and a consideration of definitional matters, distinguishing derivation from inflection on the one hand and compounding on the other. From a formal perspective, the handbook treats affixation (prefixation, suffixation, infixation, circumfixation, etc.), conversion, reduplication, root and pattern and other templatic processes, as well as prosodic and subtractive means of forming new words. From a semantic perspective, it looks at the processes that form various types of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs, as well as evaluatives and the rarer processes that form function words. The book also surveys derivation in fifteen language families that are widely dispersed in terms of both geographical location and typological characteristics. Cover Contents List of Figures List of Tables Contributors List of Abbreviations Part I 1. Introduction: The Scope of the Handbook 2. Delineating Derivation and Inflection 3. Delineating Derivation and Compounding 4. Theoretical Approaches to Derivation 5. Productivity, Blocking, and Lexicalization 6. Methodological Issues in Studying Derivation 7. Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches 8. Concatenative Derivation 9. Infixation 10. Conversion 11. Non-Concatenative Derivation: Reduplication 12. Non-concatenative Derivation: Other Processes 13. Allomorphy 14. Nominal Derivation 15. Verbal Derivation 16. Adjectival and Adverbial Derivation 17. Evaluative Derivation 18. Derivation and Function Words 19. Polysemy in Derivation 20. Derivational Paradigms 21. Affix Ordering in Derivation 22. Derivation and Historical Change 23. Derivation in a Social Context 24. Acquisition of Derivational Morphology Part II 25. Indo-European 26. Uralic 27. Altaic 28. Yeniseian 29. Mon-Khmer 30. Austronesian 31. Niger-Congo 32. Afroasiatic 33. Nilo-Saharan 34. Sino-Tibetan 35. Pama-Nyungan 36. Athabaskan 37. Eskimo-Aleut 38. Uto-Aztecan 39. Mataguayan 40. Areal Tendencies in Derivation 41. Universals in Derivation References Language Index Name Index Subject Index __The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology____The Oxford Handbook of Compounding__The begins with an overview and a consideration of definitional matters, distinguishing derivation from inflection on the one hand and compounding on the other. From a formal perspective, the handbook treats affixation (prefixation, suffixation, infixation, circumfixation, etc.), conversion, reduplication, root and pattern and other templatic processes, as well as prosodic and subtractive means of forming new words. From a semantic perspective, it looks at the processes that form various types of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs, as well as evaluatives and the rarer processes that form function words. The book also surveys derivation in fifteen language families that are widely dispersed in terms of both geographical location and typological characteristics. This volume provides a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. Chapters cover theoretical and definitional matters, formal and semantic issues, interdisciplinary connections, and detailed descriptions of derivational processes in a wide range of language families This book provides a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. Chapters cover theoretical and definitional matters, formal and semantic issues, interdisciplinary connections, and detailed descriptions of derivational processes in a wide range of language families.