Morphology and Mind (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics

by Christopher J. Hall

Book Overview

The central concern of this book is the explanation of linguistic form. It examines in detail certain cross-linguistic patterns in morphological systems, providing unified explanations of the observation that suffixes predominate over prefixes and the correlation between affix position and syntactic head position. The explanation of the suffixing preference is one which appeals to principles of language processing, tempered by cognitive constraints...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138976466
• ISBN13: 9781138976467
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"