Yearbook of Morphology 2003

Description

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook ofMorphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates, and which are frequently referred to. Thus it has set a standard for morphological research. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2003 a large number of articles is devoted to the phenomenon of complex predicates consisting of a verb preceded by a preverb. Such complex predicates exhibit both morphological and syntactic behaviour, and thus form a testing ground for theories of the relation between morphology and syntax. Evidence is presented from a wide variety of languages including Germanic, Romance, Australian, and Uralic languages. A number of articles present historical evidence on the change of preverbal elements into prefixes. Topics such as grammaticalization, constructional idioms, and derivational periphrasis are also discussed. In addition, this Yearbook of Morphology contains articles on morphological parsing, and on the role of paradigmatical relations in analogical change. Front Matter....Pages I-V Preverbs: an introduction....Pages 1-11 Aspectual contrasts and lexeme derivation in Estonian: a realization-based morphological perspective....Pages 13-31 Preverbs and particles in Old French....Pages 33-60 Preverbs and their origins in Georgian and Udi....Pages 61-78 Particles and prefixes in Dutch and English....Pages 79-117 Preverbs, argument linking and verb semantics: Germanic prefixes and particles....Pages 119-144 Preverbs as an open word class in Northern Australian languages: synchronic and diachronic correlates....Pages 145-177 Moved preverbs in German: Displaced or misplaced?....Pages 179-212 Distribution-driven morpheme discovery: a computational/experimental study....Pages 213-248 Morphological ‘gangs’: constraints on paradigmatic relations in analogical change....Pages 249-272 Book Reviews....Pages 273-277