This is a newly expanded and updated edition of one of the best-selling introductions to linguistic morphology - the study and description of word formations in languages - that deals with inflection, derivation, and compounding, the system of word-forming elements and processes in a language. Basic concepts are introduced, with an abundance of examples from a range of familiar and exotic languages, followed by a discussion of, among other topics, the definition of word-form, productivity, inflection versus derivation, and the position of morphology to phonology - the science of speech sounds, especially the history and theory of sound changes in a language. Along with two new chapters discussing morphology and the brain and how morphology arises, changes, and disappears, this new edition includes exercises and a glossary of key terms.

This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually exceptionless generalizations across languages. Jonathan David Bobaljik describes the systematicity in suppletion, and argues that at least five generalizations are solid contenders for the status of linguistic universals. The major topics discussed include suppletion, comparative and superlative formation, deadjectival verbs, and lexical decomposition. Bobaljik's primary focus is on morphological theory, but his argument also aims to integrate evidence from a variety of subfields into a coherent whole. In the course of his analysis, Bobaljik argues that the assumptions needed bear on choices among theoretical frameworks and that the framework of Distributed Morphology has the right architecture to support the account. In addition to the theoretical implications of the generalizations, Bobaljik suggests that the striking patterns of regularity in what otherwise appears to be the most irregular of linguistic domains provide compelling evidence for Universal Grammar. The book strikes a unique balance between empirical breadth and theoretical detail. The phenomenon that is the main focus of the argument, suppletion in adjectival gradation, is rare enough that Bobaljik is able to present an essentially comprehensive description of the facts; at the same time, it is common enough to offer sufficient variation to explore the question of universals over a significant dataset of more than three hundred languages.

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《荷兰语语法》旨在为中国读者提供一部可靠、详实的荷兰语语法学习材料。本书的首要特点是内容力求详尽而全面，书中不仅对荷兰语的语音学、修辞学、句法、标点、时间表示法和书信格式等方方面面的内容作了全面的介绍，而且还尽可能详尽地网罗了各种各样的语法规则及其使用的例外情况。本书的另一大特点是系统性强，结构一目了然，便于使用。书中以语法学中的各个专题为主线进行专题论述，使用者可以很容易地在各专题下寻找有关的语述。此外，本书从中国人学习荷兰语的角度去书写，适用对象包括所有希望学习和使用荷兰语的华人，特别对正在学习荷兰语的中国各大院校学生，以及向中国学生教授荷兰语的教师们尤其有帮助。

本教材共分12章，讨论近代汉语语法的若干基本问题，重点考察和分析近代汉语语法的一些重要语法词和句式。第一章统领全书，介绍近代汉语语法研究的基本文献和重要成果；最后一章从一般历史句法学的角度讨论近代汉语语法研究的对象、目标、理论和方法。其余各章涉及的语法词有“代词”、“助动词”、“副词”、“介词”、“连词”和“助词”，涉及句法结构(包括句式)的有“述补结构”、“被动式”、“处置式”和“疑问句”等。本教材为近代汉语语法研究构建了比较完整的学科体系，既有整体的宏观概述，又有个案的微观分析；既有共时用法的描写，也有历时演变的探讨；既注重形式上的一般考察，也关注功能或意义上的深入探索。

本书是梁银峰先生的博士论文，全书共分七章，内容包括绪论、泛动补结构形态——先秦(含秦)、动补结构的酝酿期——两汉、动补结构的萌芽期——魏晋南北朝、动补结构的普遍运用期——隋至宋金、动补结构的成熟期——元明清等。

《处州方言的地理语言学研究》运用方言地图，直观地显示处州方言重要语言特征的地理分布，归纳方言区别性特征，对处州方言进行地理分类；运用地理上的共时分布分析处州方言的历时演变过程；运用非语言因素（行政区划、地貌地缘、政治经济、传媒教育、文化心理等）解释处州方言地理分布和历史演变的原因，探索语言变化的过程和机制。

本书的研究内容，既包括像上古汉语的“主语 之 谓语（ 也）”结构、“A之于B（也）”结构、“NP (之 )VP者”结构、“N而V”结构等这样的传统研究热点，也包括汉语史学界不太关注或研究得还不太深入的一些主从句和从属句，如上古汉语的“V之，X”式申说句、中古汉译佛经和敦煌变文中的“于”字式宾语小句、唐五代以前的关系从句“NP者N”、近代汉语的时间从句“VP（之）次”等。对于前者，本书力图通过崭新的视角描述其产生与演变过程；对于后者，则力图从跨语言的角度寻求和验证汉语与世界上其他语言在主从句和从属句的形成与演化方面的共性。

integrates, for the first time, psycholinguistics and historical linguistics, written by experts in both fields • readers from both disciplines are able to appreciate the potential of the respective fields for their own research, whilst acquiring a better grasp of the limitations of the interdisci Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology, this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency, salience, chunking, priming, analogy, ambiguity and acquisition. Easily accessible, the book features chapters by psycholinguists presenting cutting edge research on core factors and processes and develops a model of how this may be involved in language change. Each chapter is complemented with one or several case study in the history of the english language in which the psycholinguistic factor in question may be argued to have played a decisive role. Thus, for the first time, a single volume provides a platform for an integrated exchange between psycholinguistics and historical linguistics on the question of how language changes over time.

Why are there more English words ending in -ness than ending in -ity? What is it about some endings that makes them more widely usable than others? Can we measure the differences in the facility with which the various affixes are used? Does the difference in facility reflect a difference in the way we treat words containing these affixes in the brain? These are the questions examined in this book. Morphological productivity has, over the centuries, been a major factor in providing the huge vocabulary of English and remains one of the most contested areas in the study of word-formation and structure. This book takes an eclectic approach to the topic, applying the findings for morphology to syntax and phonology. Bringing together the results of twenty years' work in the field, it provides new insights and considers a wide range of linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence.

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families. Compounding is an effective way to create and express new meanings. Compound words are segmentable into their constituents so that new items can often be understood on first presentation. However, as keystone, keynote, and keyboard, and breadboard, sandwich-board, and mortarboard show, the relation between components is often far from straightforward. The question then arises as to how far compound sequences are analysed at each encounter and how far they are stored in the brain as single lexical items. The nature and processing of compounds thus offer an unusually direct route to how language operates in the mind, as well as providing the means of investigating important aspects of morphology, and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisition and the organization of the mental lexicon. This book is the first to report on the state of the art on these and other central topics, including the classification and typology of compounds, and approaches to cross-linguistic research on the subject from generative and non-generative, synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology and tendencies. It fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Drawing on over 1500 examples from fifty-five languages, it provides a wider global representation than any other volume. This data, from twenty-eight language families and forty-five language genera, reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages. Data presentation from two complementary perspectives, semasiological and onomasiological, shows both the basic functions of individual word-formation processes and the ways of expressing selected cognitive categories. Language data was gathered by way of detailed questionnaires completed by over eighty leading experts on the languages discussed. The book is aimed at academic researchers and graduate students in language typology, linguistic fieldwork and morphology.

This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides a readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics, the book's original perspective will also attract specialists in the field seeking a broad overview of the linguistic and sociolinguistic relationships between these languages. Restructured versions of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and other languages arose during European colonial expansion, resulting in such creoles as Jamaican, Haitian, Papiamentu, and some one hundred others, as well as such semi-creoles as Afrikaans, non-standard Brazilian Portuguese, and American Black English. Scholars have tended to work on particular language varieties in relative isolation rather than undertaking comparative research into the genesis, development, and structure of creoles. In this book, however, Holm draws on studies of a broad range of languages to make clear the extent of creoles' differences and similarities. The core of this volume is a comparative study of creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean in terms of their lexical semantics, phonology, and syntax. Volume 2 presents an overview of the socio-historical development of each of some one hundred pidgins, creoles and semi-creoles, providing texts and highlighting the salient linguistic features of each.

This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as "bad" versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right.