Morphology

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

by Peter Hugoe Matthews

This is an updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews's well-known Morphology, first published in 1974. It includes chapters on inflectional and lexical morphology, derivational processes and productivity, compounds, paradigms, and much new material on markedness and other aspects of iconicity. As in the first edition, the theoretical discussion is eclectic and critical: its scope ranges from the ancient grammarians to the work of Chomsky and his followers, the disintegration of the classical Chomskyan scheme, and the renewed standing of morphology and historical linguistics in recent years. The examples are drawn from English and other European languages, both ancient and modern. The work will appeal to both specialists in particular languages--it contains much original material--and students of general linguistics. For this new edition much now obsolete discussion has been removed and replaced by discussion of current trends, and the further reading sections have been thoroughly updated.

Genres: Linguistics, Reference, Language

264 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 1974

About the author

Frequently published under the name P.H. Matthews
Formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

Reviews

[Nina]

offers new approaches to morphology analysis

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