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The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphology --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology - Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Gramàtica comparada --- Morfologia (Gramàtica) --- Morfologia (Lingüística) --- Morfosintaxi --- Aspecte (Gramàtica) --- Flexió (Gramàtica) --- Comparatisme --- Gramàtica contrastiva --- Gramàtica --- Tipologia (Lingüística) --- Gramàtica generativa

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A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that linguists have rarely addressed. Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than assuming phonological representations in terms of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar model, in which specific tokens of use are stored and categorized phonetically with reference to variables in the context. This model allows an account of phonetically gradual sound change which produces lexical variation, and provides an explanatory account of the fact that many reductive sound changes affect high frequency items first. The well-known effects of type and token frequency on morphologically-conditioned phonological alterations are shown also to apply to larger sequences, such as fixed phrases and constructions, solving some of the problems formulated previously as dealing with the phonology-syntax interface.

Phonetics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology. --- Linguistic change. --- Linguistic universals. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic change --- Linguistic universals --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Phonology --- Morphology --- 801.4 --- -Linguistic change --- -Universals (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Universals (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Fonetiek. Fonologie --- Universals --- Grammar, Comparative --- 801.4 Fonetiek. Fonologie --- Phonology. --- Morphology. --- Morphology (Linguistics) --- Universaliën (Taalwetenschap) --- Lingüística. --- Fonologia. --- Morfologia (lingüística) --- Gramática comparada. --- Variation de langage. --- Universaux du langage. --- Phonologie. --- Sprachgebrauch. --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology --- GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- LINGUISTIC CHANGE --- UNIVERSAUX (LINGUISTIQUE) --- PHONOLOGY --- MORPHOLOGY