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The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology
The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology
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This book presents a comprehensive, data-rich, theory-neutral description of English word formation, including inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and such minor processes as subtractive morphology. It also offers analyses of the theoretical challenges these phenomena present.
It is the first to make systematic use of large linguistic corpora, including the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the British National Corpus, and the American National Corpus by which, for example, the authors are able to measure the productivity of different patterns and to trace semantic
developments as they happen. After setting out their methodology and theoretical assumptions, the authors describe word formation and inflection in contemporary English. They give equal weight to form and meaning and cover nominalizations, agentive forms, comparatives, root and synthetic compounds, as well as more recondite
topics such as the abstract noun-forming suffixes -hood, -dom, and -ship, neoclassical compounds, and the morphology of numbers. They examine the relations between orthography and phonological form. While their focus is on contemporary morphology, they trace the history of phenomena wherever doing
so helps to understand and explain current form and function. The final part of the book shows how the data assembled within it bear on current theoretical issues and reveal new lines of research. This outstanding book will interest all scholars and students of English and of linguistic morphology
more generally.
Author: Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 702
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.08lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780199579266
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2014
journal Word Structure. Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire and author of Deconstructing Morphology (Chicago 1992), Morphology and Lexical Semantics (CUP 2004), and Introducing Morphology (CUP 2009). She is co-editor with Pavol Stekauer of the Oxford Handbooks of Compounding and
Derivational Morphology (OUP 2009 and 2013). Ingo Plag is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. His books include Morphological Productivity (Mouton de Gruyter 1999), Word-formation in English (CUP 2003), and Introduction to English Linguistics (with co-authors, Mouton de Gruyter 2009). He
is co-editor of the journal Morphology.
It is the first to make systematic use of large linguistic corpora, including the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the British National Corpus, and the American National Corpus by which, for example, the authors are able to measure the productivity of different patterns and to trace semantic
developments as they happen. After setting out their methodology and theoretical assumptions, the authors describe word formation and inflection in contemporary English. They give equal weight to form and meaning and cover nominalizations, agentive forms, comparatives, root and synthetic compounds, as well as more recondite
topics such as the abstract noun-forming suffixes -hood, -dom, and -ship, neoclassical compounds, and the morphology of numbers. They examine the relations between orthography and phonological form. While their focus is on contemporary morphology, they trace the history of phenomena wherever doing
so helps to understand and explain current form and function. The final part of the book shows how the data assembled within it bear on current theoretical issues and reveal new lines of research. This outstanding book will interest all scholars and students of English and of linguistic morphology
more generally.
Author: Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 702
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.08lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780199579266
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2014
About the Author
Laurie Bauer, Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, Rochelle Lieber, Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, and Ingo Plag, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf
journal Word Structure. Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire and author of Deconstructing Morphology (Chicago 1992), Morphology and Lexical Semantics (CUP 2004), and Introducing Morphology (CUP 2009). She is co-editor with Pavol Stekauer of the Oxford Handbooks of Compounding and
Derivational Morphology (OUP 2009 and 2013). Ingo Plag is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. His books include Morphological Productivity (Mouton de Gruyter 1999), Word-formation in English (CUP 2003), and Introduction to English Linguistics (with co-authors, Mouton de Gruyter 2009). He
is co-editor of the journal Morphology.
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