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The Study of Words: An Introduction

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The Study of Words introduces the study of word structure, also known as morphology, without assuming any prior knowledge of linguistics. Introducing concepts in an accessible way, Gebhardt illustrates how to understand and produce both existing and new words. This book:

• Provides an overview of words, word components, and the rules by which components can and cannot be assembled into words;

• Introduces the area of morphology with a data-driven approach, exposing readers to sets of words in a variety of languages, and prompting them to identify their components and seek patterns;

• Features exercises and questions throughout to provoke thought and point readers to unresolved morphological issues.

Aimed at students at undergraduate level with no background in linguistics, The Study of Words is essential reading for those studying morphology for the first time as part of linguistics, language and general education courses.

Author(s): Lewis Gebhardt
Series: Routledge Guides to Linguistics
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 192

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