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Title The future of post-human morphology : towards a new theory of typologies and rules / editor: Peter Baofu.

Publication Info. Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Language and linguistics
Languages and linguistics series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The significance of morphology -- Typologies and their double-facedness -- Rules and their double-edgedness -- Conclusion: The future of morphology.
Summary Are words really so determined by rules that, as Leonard Bloomfield once argued in defense of the ""morpheme-based"" morphology, ""word forms are analyzed as arrangements of morphemes, "" such that there are ""rules to combine morphemes into word forms, or to generate word forms from stems ... ""? (WK 2012) But there is an opposing approach to morphology known as the ""word-based"" morphology, which ""takes paradigms as a central notion, "" in that it ""states generalizations"" which categorize ""words ... based on the pattern they fit into. This applies both to existing words and to new ones. Appli.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Baofu, Peter, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Future of post-human morphology 9781628083989 (DLC) 2013038442 (OCoLC)857214940
ISBN 9781628089820 (electronic book)
1628089822 (electronic book)
9781628083989
1628083980