Inflectional Morphology
A Theoretical Study Based on Aspects of Latin Verb Conjugation

This book offers a thorough discussion of morphological theory and is based directly on an 'inflecting' or 'fusional' language - Latin.

P. H. Matthews (Author)

9780521290654, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 8 April 1976

442 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg

Originally published in 1972, this was the most thorough discussion of morphological theory to appear in recent years, and one of the few to be based directly on an 'inflecting' or 'fusional' language - in this case Latin. The book is addressed to theoretical and descriptive linguists in general and no knowledge of Latin is assumed.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Preamble
2. The scope of a linguistic theory
3. Evaluating morphological theories
Part II. Models of Inflectional Morphology: 4. Item and arrangement morphology: introductory remarks
5. Item and arrangement morphology: an outline formation
6. Characteristic problems of inflecting languages
7. Item and arrangement versus word and paradigm
Part III. Towards a Generative Formulation: 8. Preamble
9. Word and paradigm morphology: model and morpholexical rules
10. Some outstanding problems in morphophonemics
Part IV. Towards an Evaluation Procedure: 11. Preamble
12. Formal economy
13. Some alternative possibilities in morpholexics
14. Problems of evaluation in morphophonemics
15. Concluding observations
Appendices
References
Indices.

Subject Areas: Grammar, syntax & morphology [CFK]