The Study of Words: An Introduction

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Glossary of Terms
Chapter 1 Introduction
	1.1 Preliminaries
	1.2 Words and Grammar and What We Know about Them
	1.3 Knowledge of Language
	1.4 Spelling Conventions and the International Phonetic Alphabet
	1.5 Presentation of Language Data
	1.6 Summary
	1.7 Exercises
	1.8 Arguable Answers to Exercises
Chapter 2 The Lexicon
	2.1 Preliminaries
	2.2 Morphemes and the Lexicon
	2.3 Kinds of Morphemes
		2.3.1 Free and Bound
		2.3.2 Lexical and Functional Morphemes
		2.3.3 Productive and Nonproductive Morphemes
		2.3.4 Roots, Stems and Affixes
			2.3.4.1 Roots and Stems
			2.3.4.2 Affixes
		2.3.5 A Few Other Kinds of Morphemes
	2.4 Summary
	2.5 Exercises
	2.6 Arguable Answers to Exercises
Chapter 3 What They Are and Where They Come From
	3.1 Preliminaries
	3.2 What’s a Word?
	3.3 So, How Many Words?
	3.4 The Source of the Lexicon
		3.4.1 Early and Later Acquisition
		3.4.2 Transmission across Generations
	3.5 What’s in the Lexicon
	3.6 Summary
	3.7 Exercises
	3.8 Arguable Answers to Exercises
Chapter 4 Inflectional Morphology
	4.1 Preliminaries
	4.2 Formation of Wordforms
	4.3 Noun Inflections
		4.3.1 Number
		4.3.2 Gender
		4.3.3 Definiteness/Indefiniteness
		4.3.4 Case
		4.3.5 Pronouns
		4.3.6 Portmanteau Inflections
		4.3.7 Nonconcatenative Inflection
	4.4 Verb Inflections
		4.4.1 Agreement
		4.4.2 A Few Other Verbal Affixes
	4.5 Some Crosslinguistic Generalizations in Inflectional Morphology
	4.6 Summary
	4.7 Exercises
	4.8 Arguable Answers
Chapter 5 Derivation
	5.1 Preliminaries
	5.2 Creating Lexemes with Affixes: Case Study with -ness
	5.3 Derivational Affixes
		5.3.1 Zero Derivation
		5.3.2 Other Kinds of Derivation
		5.3.3 Iterative Derivation
		5.3.4 Derivation in Other Languages
	5.4 Compounds
		5.4.1 Compound or Phrase?
	5.5 Incorporation
	5.6 Putting Together Derivation and Inflection
	5.7 Derivation v. Inflection
	5.8 Clitics
	5.9 Summary
	5.10 Exercises
	5.11 Arguable Answers to Exercises
Chapter 6 Final Comments
Bibliography
Index