Notes on Fromkin, An Introduction to Language, Chapter Three


Notes on Chapter 3
from Die Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany


morphology 構詞學、型態學

morpheme 詞素、語素

lexicon 詞彙庫、詞典、詞庫

Potawatomi
Potawatomi Nation site language

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List of homophones in British English

Which are not homophones in
American English, and why is there
a difference between the two dialects
regarding what is and isn't a homophone?

Survey results on use in Ottawa Valley of:
couch, sofa, davenport, chesterfield, settee, and other words

Wikipedia on the longest word in the English language

orthography 拼字法

grammatical category; syntactic class 詞類

Samuel Johnson

Compact Oxford English Dictionary Online

content word 實詞

open (class) 開放性

function word 虛詞

closed (class) 封閉性

generic 通指、泛指

slips of the tongue 口誤、說溜了嘴

Spoonerisms (in Chinese) links

bound morpheme 附著語素、黏著語素

free morpheme 自由語素

discrete 離散的

prefix 前綴

suffix 後綴

infix 中綴

circumfix 框綴

transfix, apophony, internal modification, root-and-pattern, introflection: 元音變化、元音遞變、元音交替
All of these terms refer to the kind of internal modification typically found in Semitic languages like Arabic in paradigms like:
katab
'he wrote', kaatib 'writer', kitáab 'book', kútub 'books'.

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conversion (詞類) 轉化

root 詞根

stem 詞幹

monomorphemic 單語素

polymorphemic 多語素

derivational morpheme 派生性語素

inflectional morpheme 屈折性語素

tree diagram 樹狀結構、樹

lexical gap 詞彙空缺

productivity 能產性

antonym 反義語

word coinage 詞彙新增、造詞

compound 複合詞

head 中心語

acronym 首字母縮略字

back formation 逆生構詞(法)

abbreviation 縮寫

clipping 截短法

blend 省併詞

portmanteau word 合音詞、緊縮詞、合併詞、 混合詞

eponym 名祖(其名字用來命名人種、土地、時代的人)

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Basic books on morphology:

1. Bauer, Laurie. A Glossary Of Morphology. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 124pp. Paper. A very useful assemblage of ideas and terms used by researchers representing a wide range of approaches to morphology.

2. Bauer, Laurie. Introducing Linguistic Morphology, 2nd ed. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003.

3. Bauer, Laurie. English Word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii + 311. Reprinted regularly.

4. Bybee, Joan L. Morphology: a study of the relation between meaning and form. P241 B9 1985

5. Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

6. Haspelmath, Martin. Understanding Morphology. London: Arnold, 2002.

7. Katamba, Francis. Morphology. P241 K38 1993b

8. Marchand, Hans. The categories and types of present-day English word formation. Munich: C.H.Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1969.

9. Matthews, P. H. Morphology: an introduction to the theory of word-structure. P241 M432


More advanced books on mophology in the NTU library:

1. Akhmanova, Olga. Phonology, morphonology, morphology. P217 A5213

2. Anderson, Stephen R. A-Morphous morphology. P241 A47 1992 (generativist)

3. Aronoff, Mark. Morphology by itself: stems and inflectional classes. P251 A76 1994 (generativist)

4. Beard, Robert & Bogdan Szymanek, compilors. Bibliography of morphology, 1960-1985. Ref Z7004 M67B43 1988

5. Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. Current morphology. P241 C3 1992

6. Coates, Richard. Word structure. London & New York: Routledge, 1999 P241 C6z 1999

7. Dressler, Wolgang U. et al, ed. Leitmotifs in natural morphology. P241 L45 1987

8. Dressler, Wolfgang U. et al, ed. Morphological analysis in comparison. P241 M597 2000

9. Elson, Benjamin & Velma Pickett. An introduction to morphology and syntax. P291 El 78 1969

10. Fisiak, Jacek. Historical morphology. P241 H57

11. Frost, Ram & Leonard Katz, ed. Orthography, phonology, morphology, and meaning. P240.2 O76 1992

12. Hall, Christopher J. Morphology and mind: a unified approach to explanation in linguistics. P128.E95 H35 1992

13. Kemenade, Ans van & Nigel Vincent, ed. Parameters of morphosyntactic change. P142 P37 1997

14. Kurzova, Helena. From Indo-European to Latin: the evolution of a morphosyntactic type. PA2137 K87 1993

15. Lahiri, Aditi, ed. Analogy, levelling, markedness: principles of change in phonology and morphology. P142 A53 2000

16. Lieber, Rochelle. Deconstructing morphology: word formation in syntactic theory. P241 L53 1992

17. Lockwood, David G. Morphological analysis and description: a realizational approach. P241 L63z 1993

18. Murray, Thomas E. The structure of English: phonetics, phonology, morphology. PE1135 M8 1995

19. Nida, Eugene Albert. Morphology, the descriptive analysis of words. P25 N549 1949

20. Payne, Thomas. Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

21. Plag, Ingo. Morphological productivity: structural constraints in English derivation. PE1171 P57 1999

22. Pounder, Amanda. Processes and paradigms in word-formation morphology. P245 P64 2000

23. Selkirk, Elisabeth O. The Syntax of Words. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 1982. (generativist)

24. Shields, Kenneth C. A history of Indo-European verb morphology. P625 S53 1992

25. Spencer, Andrew. Arnold M. Zwicky, ed. The handbook of morphology. P241 H36 1998 (generativist)

26. Szpyra, Jolanta. The phonology-morphology interface: cycles, levels and words. P217.6 S96z 1989

27. Stonham, John T. Combinatorial morphology. P243 S76 1994

28. Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich [Manfred Schentke, translator]. Inflectional morphology and naturalness. P251 W87 1989

Here is another list of works on morphology from the Universitat Marburg in Germany (.pdf):
http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~uffmann/hs05-bibliography.pdf


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