The prosody-morphology interface

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The work The prosody-morphology interface represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The prosody-morphology interface

Statement of responsibility

edited by René Kager, Harry van der Hulst, Wim Zonneveld

Contributor

• Hulst, Harry van der
• Kager, René
• Zonneveld, Wim

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology
• Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)

Language

eng

Summary

In many languages, word-formation is restricted by principles of prosody that organise speech into larger units such as the syllable. Written by an international team of leading linguists in the field of prosodic morphology, this 1999 book examines a range of key issues in the interaction of word-formation and prosody. It provides an explanation for non-concatenative morphology which occurs in different forms (such as reduplication) in many languages, by an interaction of independent general principles of prosodic and morphological well-formedness. Surveying developments in the field from the 1970s, the book describes the general transition in linguistic theory from rule-based approaches into constraint-based ones, and most of the contributions are written from the perspective of Optimality Theory, a rapidly developing theory of constraint interaction in generative grammar

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries