The grammar of words an introduction to linguistic morphology
Series editors Keith Brown, Eve V. Clark, April McMahon, Jim Miller, and Lesley Milroy The Grammar of Words O XFORD T EXTBOOKS IN L INGUISTICS General editors: Keith Brown, University of Cambridge; Eve V. Clark, Stanford University; April McMahon, University of Sheffield; Jim Miller, University of Auckland; Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan This series provides lively and authoritative introductions to the approaches, methods, and theories associated with the main subfields of linguistics. P The Grammar of Words An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology by Geert Booij A Practical Introduction to Phonetics Second edition by J. C. Catford Meaning in Language An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics Second edition by Alan Cruse Principles and Parameters An Introduction to Syntactic Theory by Peter W. Culicover Semantic Analysis A Practical Introduction by Cliff Goddard Cognitive Grammar An Introduction by John R. Taylor Linguistic Categorization Third edition by John R. Taylor I Pragmatics by Yan Huang The Grammar of Words An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology Geert Booij 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan South Korea Poland Portugal Singapore Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc. 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The grammar of words : an introduction to linguistic morphology / by Geert Booij. p. cm.—(Oxford textbooks in linguistics) Summary: “This is a basic introduction to how words are formed. It shows how the component parts of words affects their grammatical function, meaning, and sound.”—Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-925847-3 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-19-928042-8 (alk. paper) 1. Grammar, Comparative and general—Morphology. I. Title. II. Series. P241.B66 2005 415′.9—dc22 2004023696 ISBN 0–19–925847 3 (pbk) ISBN 0–19–928042 8 (hbk) 3579108642 Typeset in Times and Stone Sans by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Limited, Gosport, Hampshire Contents Preface vii Typographic conventions viii Abbreviations and symbols ix List of figures xii List of tables xiii I What is Linguistic Morphology? 1 1 Morphology: basic notions 3 2 Morphological analysis 27 II Word-Formation 49 3 Derivation 51 4 Compounding 75 III Inflection 97 5 Inflection 99 6 Inflectional systems 125 IV Interfaces 151 7 The interface between morphology and phonology 153 8 Morphology and syntax: demarcation and interaction 185 9 Morphology and semantics 207 V Morphology and Mind 229 10 Morphology and psycholinguistics 231 11 Morphology and language change 255 Answers to questions 279 References 290 Language index 303 Index of terms 304 This page intentionally left blank Preface Each textbook provides a specific perspective on the discipline that it aims to introduce. Therefore, writing this book has not only been a challenge for me because of the didactic demands that each textbook imposes on its writer. It also forced me to rethink my own ideas on morphology in confrontation with those of others, and to come up with a consistent picture of what morphology is about. This perspective is summarized by the title of this book, The Grammar of Words, which gives the linguistic entity of the word a pivotal role in understanding morphology. It is with much pleasure that I would like to thank a number of col- leagues for their constructive comments on an earlier draft of this book. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand), Ingo Plag (University of Siegen), Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna), Caro Struijke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Greg Stump (University of Kentucky at Lexington) read the whole manuscript, and gave extremely valuable advice. Maarten Mous and Marian Klamer (both University of Leiden) provided useful feedback for a number of chapters, and Mirjam Ernestus (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) had a critical look at Chapter 10. Jenny Audring and Lourens de Vries (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Maarten Kossman (University of Leiden), and Jaap van Marle (Open Universiteit Heerlen) also commented on a number of points. None of them should be held responsible for what I wrote in this book. Another form of support for this project came from my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in particular Mark Louden, Monica Macaulay, and Joe Salmons. They made it possible for me to spend a very pleasant month in Madison, in which I could work on parts of this book. It is my sincere hope that this textbook will prove to be useful for a new generation of students of language, and that they will enjoy reading and thinking about the many wonderful intricacies of human language. Amsterdam G.B. Typographic Conventions Small capitals For lexemes, semantic components, and morphosyntactic categories Bold type For technical terms first introduced Italics For citation forms when not set on different lines Single quotation marks For quotations from other authors Double quotation marks For glosses Questions marks For formal or semantic oddness Asterisks For ungrammaticality // For underlying phonological representations [ ] For phonetic representations Abbreviations and Symbols A Adjective, transitive subject ABL Ablative ABS Absolutive ACC Accusative AFF,aff Affix ALL Allative ANTIPASS Antipassive AP Adjective Phrase APPL Applicative AUX Auxiliary CAUS Causative COM Comitative COMP Completive aspect COORD Coordination CVB Converb DAT Dative DO Direct Object DS Different Subject DIM Diminutive ERG Ergative EVID Evidential F Foot FEM Feminine FUT Future GEN Genitive H High Tone IMP Imperative IMPF Imperfective INCOMP Incompletive aspect IND Indicative INF Infinitive INSTR Instrumental INTR Intransitive . P The Grammar of Words An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology by Geert Booij A Practical Introduction to Phonetics Second edition by J. C. Catford Meaning. Meaning in Language An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics Second edition by Alan Cruse Principles and Parameters An Introduction to Syntactic Theory by