Beginning Morphology and Syntax

Beginning Morphology and Syntax

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<p>This textbook,<i>Beginning Morphology and Syntax</i> has the basic purpose of preparing students with no linguistic background to discover the grammatical structure of an unwritten language. The Americanist symbols are used.</p>The <i> Laboratory Manual for Morphology and Syntax, 7th ed, ISBN: 9781556711497</i> (revised, 2003) is a practical supplement to accompany the textbook. It contains 298 datasets of problems taken from 117 spoken languages. (IPA) symbols replaced the Americanist symbols in some datasets. </p><h3>Table of Contents</h3><p>Preface<br>Acknowledgements<br>Some abbreviations and symbols</p><p>1. The morpheme<br>2. Word structure<br>3. Some semantic categories<br>4. Allomorphs<br>5. Phonological alternation<br>6. Simple sentences and grammatical function<br>7. More on simple sentences<br>8. The phrase<br>9. Kinds of simple sentences with active verbs<br>10. Stative and impersonal sentences<br>11. Modal differences<br>12. Internal relationships<br>13. Word order<br>14. Complex and compound sentences<br>15. Derivation<br>16. Underlying structure and semantic roles<br>17. Word boundaries<br>18. Discourse<br>19. Grammatical description<br>20. The dictionary<br>21. Field methods</p><p>Appendix 1<br>Appendix 2<br>Appendix 3<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>