Part of
All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfacesEdited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 353] 2021
► pp. 1–14
Edited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 353] 2021
► pp. 1–14
Chapter 1All things morphology
An introduction
It is of course too big a promise that this volume would deliver summaries of important work in all subfields of the vast and ancient discipline of morphology, like a medieval street fair of arcane morphological ideas. This is not an encyclopedia, despite the title. Rather, we have attempted here to provide a view of where the field has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical points of view. The place where the authors of these seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone is in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology, which was brought to attention in the modern era by the likes of Matthews (1965), Aronoff (1976, 1994), and Anderson (1992). The chapters of this book show that this perspective accounts for both the independence of morphology and for its interactions with syntax and phonology. One prominent name missing from the list of contributors is Mark Aronoff. This is hardly an accident: this volume was conceived as a way to shine light on the importance of his work by contributors who in virtually all cases have collaborated with or been mentored by Prof. Aronoff. We hope that he will be honored with the research we have produced and see his influence in it.
Article outline
- 1.Reaching back: Reinterpreting traditional views
- 2.Morphemes and the autonomy of morphology
- 3.Autonomous and word-based morphology: Aronovian perspective
- 4.Outline of the book
- 4.1Paradigms
- 4.2Words, stems, and affixes
- 4.3Competition, inheritance, and defaults
- 4.4Morphomes
- 4.5Interfaces
- 5.Conclusion
-
References
References
Anderson, Stephen R.
1992 A-morphous
morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
2015 The
morpheme: Its nature and
use. In Matthew Baerman (ed.), Oxford
handbook of
inflection, 11–34. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2016 The
role of morphology in transformational
grammar. In Andrew Hippisley & Gregory Stump (eds.), The
Cambridge handbook of
morphology, 588–608. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2017 Words
and paradigms: Peter H. Matthews and the development of
morphological theory. Transactions of
the Philological
Society 115(1). 1–13.
Aronoff, Mark
1976 Word
formation in generative
grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
1983 A
decade of morphology and word
formation. Annual Review of
Anthropology 12. 355–375.
1994 Morphology
by itself. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2018 Morphology
and words: A
memoir. In Olivier Bonami, Gilles Boyé, Georgette Dal, Hélène Giraudo & Fiammetta Namer (eds.), The
lexeme in descriptive and theoretical
morphology, 3–17. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2019 Competitors
and alternants in linguistic
morphology. In Franz Rainer, Francesca Gardini, Wolfgang Dressler, & Hans Christian Luschützky (eds.), Competition
in inflection and word
formation, 39–66. Berlin: Springer.
Audring, Jenny & Francesca Masini
2018 Introduction:
Theory and
theories. In Jenny Audring & Francesca Masini (eds.), The
Oxford handbook of morphological
theory, 1–19. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan
1895
[1972] An attempt at a theory of
phonetic
alternations. In Edward Stankiewicz (ed.), A
Baudouin de Courtenay
anthology, 144–212. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Bloomfield, Leonard
1933 Language. New York: Holt.
Campbell, Lyle
2017 The
history of
linguistics. In Mark Aronoff & Janie Rees-Miller (eds.), The
handbook of linguistics, 2nd
edn., 97–117. Hoboken NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
Chomsky, Noam
1965 Aspects
of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Corbett, Greville
2003 Agreement:
Canonical instances and the extent of the
phenomenon. In Geert E. Booij, Janet DeCesaris, Angela Ralli, and Sergio Scalise (eds.), Topics
in morphology: Selected papers from the Third Mediterranean
Morphology
Meeting, 109–128. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Gesenius, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm, Emil Kautzsch & Arthur Ernest Cowley
1910
[1966] Gesenius’ Hebrew
grammar, 2nd English
edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Halle, Morris & Alec Marantz
1993 Distributed
morphology and the pieces of
inflection. In Morris Halle & Samuel J. Keyser (eds.), The
view from Building
20, 111–176. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Harley, Heidi & Rolf Noyer
1999 Distributed
morphology. Glot
International 4(4), April. 3–9.
Hippesley, Andrew & Gregory Stump
2016 Introduction. In Andrew Hippesley & Gregory Stump (eds.), The
Cambridge handbook of
morphology, 1–24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hockett, Charles F.
1954 Two
models of grammatical
description. Word 10. 210–231.
Kiparsky, Paul
1993 Paninian
linguistics. In Ron Asher (ed.), The
Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics, 1st
edn., Volume 6, 2918–2923. New York: Pergamon.
Marantz, Alec
2015 Morphology. In Gregory Hickok & Steven L. Small (eds.), Neurobiology
of
language, 153–163. San Diego: Academic Press.
Matthews, Peter H.
1965 Some
concepts in word-and-paradigm
morphology. Foundations of
Language 1(4). 268–289.
Milin, Petar & James P. Blevins
Saussure, Ferdinand de
1915
[1959] Course in general
linguistics. Translated
by Wade Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Stump, Gregory
2001 Inflectional
morphology: A theory of paradigm
structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.