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The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a
companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009),
aiming to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the
study of derivational morphology. Written by distinguished
scholars, its 41 chapters are devoted to theoretical and
definitional matters, formal and semantic issues, interdisciplinary
connections, and detailed descriptions of derivational processes in
a wide range of language families. It presents the reader with the
current state of the art in 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.
Chapters are devoted to issues of theory, methodology, the
historical development of derivation, and to child language
acquisition, sociolinguistic, experimental, and psycholinguistic
approaches. The second half of the book surveys derivation in
fifteen language families that are widely dispersed in terms of
both geographical location and typological characteristics. It ends
with a consideration of both areal tendencies in derivation and the
issue of universals.
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