1st Edition
Morphology and Mind A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics
By Christopher J. Hall
Copyright 1992
248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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The central concern of this book is the explanation of linguistic form. It examines in detail certain cross-linguistic patterns in morphological systems, providing unified explanations of the observation that suffixes predominate over prefixes and the correlation between affix position and syntactic head position. The explanation of the suffixing preference is one which appeals to principles of... Read more
1. Explanation in Linguistics 2. Morphological Regularity 3. Affixes and Heads 4. The Diachronic Link 5. Understanding Affixes 6. A Micro-Analysis of Historical Change
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Hall, Christopher J.
