This revision of Laurie Bauer's popular textbook is most welcome. Clear, reliable, interesting...updated to take account of the new interest in morphology. New chapters provide an excellent way into recent work informed by non-linear phonology, by diachronic typology and-most interesting of all-by psycholinguistics. Anyone who wants a quick explanation of grammaticalization, autosegmental morphology or the dual-route theory need look no further. The book also gains from the new exercises and three appendices (including a glossary). An excellent book for the student who really wants to understand. -- Dick Hudson, professor of linguistics, University College London In the second edition of this well-known textbook, Laurie Bauer provides a thorough introduction to such basic notions as segmentability, the nature of the word-form, inflection, vs. derivation, and productivity of patterns, and processes, carefully discussing controversial issues in each case, using examples that students may well encounter early when they confront the more technical literature. The result is an accessible, handy, and reliable comprehensive guide to the basics. There are useful suggestions for further reading, and appendices containing quite challenging questions for reflection and a recapitulation with worked examples of some of the key concepts. -- Richard Coates, professor of linguistics, University of Sussex
Laurie Bauer is professor of linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the author of Morphological Productivity and An Introduction to International Varieties of English.
In the second edition of this well-known textbook, Laurie Bauer
provides a thorough introduction to such basic notions as
segmentability, the nature of the word--form, inflection, vs.
derivation, and productivity of patterns, and processes, carefully
discussing controversial issues in each case, using examples that
students may well encounter early when they confront the more
technical literature. The result is an accessible, handy, and
reliable comprehensive guide to the basics. There are useful
suggestions for further reading, and appendices containing quite
challenging questions for reflection and a recapitulation with
worked examples of some of the key concepts.--Richard Coates,
professor of linguistics, University of Sussex
This revision of Laurie Bauer's popular textbook is most welcome.
Clear, reliable, interesting...updated to take account of the new
interest in morphology. New chapters provide an excellent way into
recent work informed by non-linear phonology, by diachronic
typology and--most interesting of all--by psycholinguistics. Anyone
who wants a quick explanation of grammaticalization, autosegmental
morphology or the dual-route theory need look no further. The book
also gains from the new exercises and three appendices (including a
glossary). An excellent book for the student who really wants to
understand.--Dick Hudson, professor of linguistics, University
College London
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