A Handbook on practical English Grammar Morphology is meant for Armenian students which is written in English made available by Yerevan State Linguistic University.
This volume contains selected papers from the International Morphology Meeting held in Vienna from February 14 to 18, 2004, which was the eleventh of a series of morphology conferences held alternatively in Austria and Hungary. This volume includes those papers which addressed the main topic of the meeting1 and which were selected by an international reading committee. This topic concerns external and internal demarcations of morphology.
Interest in morphology has undergone rapid growth over the past two decades and the area is now seen as crucially important, both in relation to other aspects of grammar and in relation to other disciplines. The Handbook of Morphology brings together articles by authors at the forefront of this research effort. The chapters deal with traditional issues such as inflection, derivation, compounding, productivity, and various aspects of the interface question, the relationship between morphology and phonology, syntax, and semantics. Other chapters offer briefer discussions of specific questions that have more recently become the focus of attention. A further set of chapters explores the role of morphology in a wider perspective: language change, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition.The Handbook concludes with a set of morphological sketches of a typologically and genetically diverse set of languages, each illustrating one or more particularly interesting morphological traits.
"I'm enormously impressed by the scope and depth of The Handbook of Morphology. The coverage is broadly inclusive, without sacrificing depth in the discussion of individual issues. The range of topics covered shows us just how far the study of words, their forms and their structures has penetrated into the core of linguistics since the 1960s, when many thought there was no distinct content to morphology, and everything interesting was either syntax or phonology." Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University
A Handbook on practical English Grammar Morphology
