By Geert Booij
Geert Booij's well known textbook examines how phrases are shaped, compounded, and inflected in numerous languages. It exhibits how, while, and why to take advantage of equipment of morphological research and explains how morphology pertains to syntax, phonology, and semantics. the writer considers the common features of morphology and the way those are mirrored within the workings of brain. The revised version has been revised and up-to-date all through; it has an entire word list and a brand new bankruptcy at the field's such a lot infamous challenge: the prestige of the word.'The Grammar of phrases by means of Geert Booij covers a large variety of subject matters from structural inquiries to psycholinguistic concerns and difficulties of language swap. This advent to morphology is thorough and available and, like different works through this well known writer, specially powerful at exhibiting the importance of empirical evidence for theoretical reasoning.' Ingo Plag, collage of Siegen
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For example, morphology quite clearly shows that linguistic structure has two axes, a syntagmatic axis and a paradigmatic one. Morphology also serves to get a better understanding 24 what is linguistic morphology? of the nature of linguistic rules and the internal organization of the grammar of natural languages. Thus we may get to know more about the architecture of the human language faculty and about the nature of rule-governed creativity in the domain of language (Part IV). Finally, morphology can be used to get a better insight as to how linguistic rules function in language perception and production, and how linguistic knowledge is mentally represented.
The emergence of the verb to babysit can be reconstructed as follows. The word babysitter is a regular compound consisting of two nouns, baby and the deverbal noun sitter. However, there is no general process of N þ V compounding in English. The exceptional NV compound babysit could therefore only arise through back formation. In the same way, the Dutch NV compound stofzuig ‘‘to vacuum-clean’’ arose through back formation from the regular NN compound stofzuiger ‘‘lit. dust sucker, vacuum cleaner’’.
In addition, the lexeme may contain a preWx and a suYx. In the words of Modern Hebrew in (18) (Clark and Berman 1984: 545) the roots g-d-l ‘‘grow’’ and k-t-b ‘‘write’’ have been used (the k and b may surface as x [x] and v respectively). The vowel patterns that are intercalated with the consonantal skeletons are called transWxes since they are spread across the consonantal sequence. 38 what is linguistic morphology? (18) Pattern Root g-d-l Root k-t-b CaCaC hiCCiC CCiCa miCCaC haCCaCa gadal ‘‘grow, get bigger’’ higdil ‘‘enlarge’’ gdila ‘‘growth’’ migdal ‘‘tower’’ hagdala ‘‘enlargement’’ katav ‘‘write’’ hixtiv ‘‘dictate’’ ktiva ‘‘writing’’ mixtav ‘‘letter, missive’’ haxtava ‘‘dictation’’ The morphological structure of the words in (18) can be represented as the linking between three diVerent morphemes.