34.2138, Books: The Typological Diversity of Morphomes: Herce

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Date: 29-Jun-2023
From: Rachel Havard [rachel.havard at oup.com]
Subject: The Typological Diversity of Morphomes: Herce


Title: The Typological Diversity of Morphomes
Subtitle: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Unnatural Morphology
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-typological-dive
rsity-of-morphomes-9780192864598?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=li
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Author: Borja Herce
Hardback: ISBN: 9780192864598 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Abstract:

This is the first typologically-oriented book-length treatment of
morphomes, systematic morphological identities, usually within
inflectional paradigms, that do not map onto syntactic or semantic
natural classes. In the first half of the book, Borja Herce outlines
the theoretical and empirical challenges associated with the
identification and definition of morphomes, and surveys their links
with related notions such as syncretism, homophony, segmentation, and
economy, among others. He also presents the different ways in which
morphomic structures in a language have been observed to emerge,
change, and disappear. The second part of the book contains its core
contribution: a database of 120 morphomes across 79 languages from a
range of families, which are presented and analysed in detail. A range
of findings emerge as a result, including the idiosyncratic nature of
morphomes in the Romance languages, the existence of
cross-linguistically recurrent unnatural patterns, and the preference
for more natural structures even among morphomes. The database also
allows further explorations of other issues such as the effect of
learnability and communicative efficiency on morphological structures,
and the lexical and grammatical informativity of morphs and their
distribution.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: English (eng)

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