Current Morphology (Linguistic Theory Guides) - Softcover

"Current Morphology" provides a thorough and wide-ranging introduction to approaches to morphology within linguistic theory over the last twenty years. This comprehensive survey concentrates not only on the generative linguistic mainstream, discussing the lexicalist morphology initiated by Chomsky and the syntactically orientated approaches that have developed in the 1980s, but on approaches that are less fashionable or relatively unknown to English-speaking linguists. It highlights neglected European theoretical developments, focusing on German-speaking as well as English-speaking countries. The author's critical approach analyzes as well as identifies the issues to give an overview of current morphology. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of linguistics, particularly morphology, but also practising linguists such as syntacticians and phonologists.