Morphology and Linguistic Typology
On-line Proceedings of the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM4) Catania, 21-23 September 2003
ISSN 1826-7491 [284 pages.]
Edited by Geert Booij, Emiliano Guevara, Angela Ralli, Salvatore Sgroi & Sergio Scalise
Date of publication: September 15, 2005.
Università degli Studi di Bologna.
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Abstract:
Each MMM has a specific topic that forms one of the criteria for the selection of abstracts. The topic of the Catania meeting was ‘Morphology and linguistic typology’. At first sight, this may look like a very obvious topic since morphological parameters have always played an important role in the classification of languages. We are all acquainted with labels such as ‘isolating language’ or ‘polysynthetic language’. Indeed, morphological typology forms a long-standing and very fruitful research tradition. Yet, there were good reasons to have a fresh look at the relation between morphology and linguistic typology. For many years, debates on morphology focused on theoretical issues, such as its relation to phonology and syntax. There are many different views on the degree of autonomy of morphology, but it is clear by now that morphology is well-established subdiscipline of linguistics. Typological issues have also received new interest, and there is no longer a fruitless separation of typological and theoretical research. Therefore, the MMM committee wanted to put the relation between morphology and typology high on the agenda. Many of the papers in these proceedings show that comparative and typologically informed morphological research is essential for proper morphological analyses of individual languages, and for the development of an empirical adequate theory of morphology.
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Cover page
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Table of contents
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Foreword
[Foreword pdf]
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Morphological Typology and First Language Acquisition: Some Mutual Challenges
[Article pdf]
Franz Rainer, Typology, Diachrony, and Universals of Semantic Change in Word Formation: A Romanist’s Look at the Polysemy of Agent Nouns
[Article pdf]
Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina & Andrew Hippisley, Resources for Suppletion: A Typological Database and a Bibliography
[Article pdf]
Stephen R. Anderson, Morphological Universals and Diachrony
[Article pdf]
Antonio Fábregas, Universals and Grammatical Categories: A Distributed Morphology Analysis of Spanish Colour Terms
[Article pdf]
Ivan A Derzhanski, On Diminutive Plurals and Plural Diminutives
[Article pdf]
Jan Don, Roots, Deverbal Nouns and Denominal Verbs
[Article pdf]
Berthold CrysmannHausa Final Vowel Shortening: Phrasal Allomorphy or Inflectional Category?
[Article pdf]
Marian Klamer, Explaining some Structural and Semantic Asymmetries in Morphological Typology
[Article pdf]
Nicola Grandi & Fabio Montermini, Prefix-Suffix Neutrality In Evaluative Morphology
[Article pdf]
Livio Gaeta, Word Formation and Typology: Which Language Universals?
[Article pdf]
Tore Nesset, Rule Counting vs. Rule Ordering: Universal Principles of Rule Interaction in Gender Assignment
[Article pdf]
Andrew Koontz Garboden & Beth Levin, The Morphological Typology of Change of State Event Encoding
[Article pdf]
François Nemo, Morphemes and Lexemes versus “Morphemes or Lexemes?”
[Article pdf]
Irit Meir, Typology and Boundaries: The Acquisition of a New Morphological Boundary by Modern Hebrew
[Article pdf]
Irina Nikolaeva, Modifier-Head Person Concord
[Article pdf]
Christian Rathmann & Gaurav Mathur, Unexpressed Features of Verb Agreement in Signed Languages
[Article pdf]
Paolo Acquaviva, The Morphosemantics of Transnumeral Nouns
[Article pdf]
Darya Kavitskaya, Loan Words and Declension Classes in Czech
[Article pdf]
Alice C. Harris, The Challenge of Typologically Unusual Structures
[Article pdf]