MODERN LINGUISTICS MORPHOLOGY

MORPHOLOGY, second edition Francis Katamba and John Stonham Morphology is a lively, comprehensive introduction tei current morphological theory and analysis, designed to take absolute beginners to a point where they can approach the current literature in the subject. This revised and updated second edition contains numerous in-text exercises which involve the reader in doing morphology by formulating hypotheses and testing them against data from English and numerous other languages. It also features _ an additional chapter on optimality theory and an exp. i d list of reading suggestions to take the student furth a particular area. The book is divided into three parts:

• Part I surveys traditional and structuralist notions of word structure which still provide the necessary background to morphological investigations

• Part II explores the relationship between the lexicon, morphology and phonology in current generative grammar

• Part III examines issues in the interaction between the lexicon, morphology and syntax.