The Boundaries of Pure Morphology by Cruschina, Silvio; Maiden, Martin; Smith, John Charles;

Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; 4;

GET 10% OFF
The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.

Publisher's listprice GBP 152.50
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

72 856 Ft (69 387 Ft + 5% VAT)
Discount 10% (cc. 7 286 Ft off)
Discounted price 65 571 Ft (62 448 Ft + 5% VAT)

72 856 Ft

Availability

printed on demand

Product details:

Publisher OUP Oxford
Date of Publication 29 August 2013

ISBN 9780199678860
Binding Hardback
No. of pages338 pages
Size 239x175x28 mm
Weight 660 g
Language English

Short description:

In a series of pioneering explorations of the diachrony of morphomes, this book throws new light on the nature of the morphome and the boundary - seen from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives - between what is and is not genuinely autonomous in morphology. Its findings will be of central interest to morphologists of all theoretical stripes.

Long description:

This book brings together leading international scholars to consider whether in some languages there are phenomena which are unique to morphology, determined neither by phonology or syntax. Central to these phenomena is the notion of the 'morphome', conceived by Mark Aronoff in 1994 as a function, itself lacking form and meaning but which serves systematically to relate them. The classic examples of morphomes are determined neither phonologically or morphosyntactically, and appear to be an autonomous property of the synchronic organization of morphological paradigms. The nature of the morphome is a problematic and much debated issue at the centre of current research in morphology, partly because it is defined negatively as what remains after all attempts to assign putatively morphomic phenomena to phonological or morphosyntactic conditioning have been exhausted. However, morphomic phenomena generally originate in some kind of morphosyntactic or phonological conditioning which has been lost while their effects have endured. Quite often, vestiges of the original conditioning environment persist, and the boundary between the morphomic and extramorphological conditioning may become problematic. In a series of pioneering explorations of the diachrony of morphomes The Boundaries of Pure Morphology throws important new light on the nature of the morphome and the boundary - seen from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives - between what is and is not genuinely autonomous in morphology. Its findings will be of central interest to morphologists of all theoretical stripes as well as to all those concerned to understand the precise nature of linguistic diachrony.

Introduction
Stem Alternations in Swiss Rumantsch
'Semi-autonomous' Morphology? A Problem in the History of the Italian (and Romanian) Verb
The Italian FINIRE Type Verbs: A case of morphomic attraction
The Fate of the -ID(I)- Morpheme in the Central Dolomitic Ladin Varieties of Northern Italy: Variable conditioning of a morphological mechanism
Future and Conditional in Occitan: A non-canonical morphome?
Compositionality and Change in Conditionals and Counterfactuals in Romance
Morphomes in Sardinian Verb Inflection
The Roots of Language
Morphomic Stems in the Northern Talyshi Verb: Diachrony and synchrony
Overabundance in Diachrony: A case study
The Morphome and Morphosyntactic/Semantic Features
The Morphome as a Gradient Phenomenon: Evidence from Romance
Beyond the Stem and Inflectional Morphology: An irregular pattern at the level of periphrasis
References
Index