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Author Gebhardt, Lewis

Title The Study of Words An Introduction
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (203 p.)
Series Routledge Guides to Linguistics Ser
Routledge Guides to Linguistics Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary of Terms -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Preliminaries -- 1.2 Words and Grammar and What We Know about Them -- 1.3 Knowledge of Language -- 1.4 Spelling Conventions and the International Phonetic Alphabet -- 1.5 Presentation of Language Data -- 1.6 Summary -- 1.7 Exercises -- 1.8 Arguable Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 2 The Lexicon -- 2.1 Preliminaries -- 2.2 Morphemes and the Lexicon -- 2.3 Kinds of Morphemes -- 2.3.1 Free and Bound
2.3.2 Lexical and Functional Morphemes -- 2.3.3 Productive and Nonproductive Morphemes -- 2.3.4 Roots, Stems and Affixes -- 2.3.4.1 Roots and Stems -- 2.3.4.2 Affixes -- 2.3.5 A Few Other Kinds of Morphemes -- 2.4 Summary -- 2.5 Exercises -- 2.6 Arguable Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 3 What They Are and Where They Come From -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.2 What's a Word? -- 3.3 So, How Many Words? -- 3.4 The Source of the Lexicon -- 3.4.1 Early and Later Acquisition -- 3.4.2 Transmission across Generations -- 3.5 What's in the Lexicon -- 3.6 Summary -- 3.7 Exercises
3.8 Arguable Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 4 Inflectional Morphology -- 4.1 Preliminaries -- 4.2 Formation of Wordforms -- 4.3 Noun Inflections -- 4.3.1 Number -- 4.3.2 Gender -- 4.3.3 Definiteness/Indefiniteness -- 4.3.4 Case -- 4.3.5 Pronouns -- 4.3.6 Portmanteau Inflections -- 4.3.7 Nonconcatenative Inflection -- 4.4 Verb Inflections -- 4.4.1 Agreement -- 4.4.2 A Few Other Verbal Affixes -- 4.5 Some Crosslinguistic Generalizations in Inflectional Morphology -- 4.6 Summary -- 4.7 Exercises -- 4.8 Arguable Answers -- Chapter 5 Derivation -- 5.1 Preliminaries
5.2 Creating Lexemes with Affixes: Case Study with -ness -- 5.3 Derivational Affixes -- 5.3.1 Zero Derivation -- 5.3.2 Other Kinds of Derivation -- 5.3.3 Iterative Derivation -- 5.3.4 Derivation in Other Languages -- 5.4 Compounds -- 5.4.1 Compound or Phrase? -- 5.5 Incorporation -- 5.6 Putting Together Derivation and Inflection -- 5.7 Derivation v. Inflection -- 5.8 Clitics -- 5.9 Summary -- 5.10 Exercises -- 5.11 Arguable Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 6 Final Comments -- Bibliography -- Index
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ISBN 9781000847154
1000847152