Naslov
Book review: Booij, Geert E., Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, and Stavros Skopeteas, eds.: Morphologie/Morphology. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung, 2. Halbband/An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation, vol 2. HSK 17-2. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.

Autori
Brdar-Szabó, Rita ; Brdar, Mario

Izvornik
Linguistics (0024-3949) 45 (2007), 2; 373-382

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
morphology; word formation; inflection; typology; morphological categories; morphological processes; conceptual entities; onomasiological perspective; morphological concepts; valency; semantic relations

Sažetak
As pointed out in the preface, the chapters in the handbook may be assigned to four large thematic sections, but these sections are not neatly divided between the two half volumes, as Vol. 2 opens with two chapters that belong together with chapters 6 to 12 of Volume 1, to what the editors call "the core of the handbook". Both of these chapters dealing with semantic categories and operations in morphology may be considered to be among the highlights of this half volume. The second half volume contains 12 chapters, with 83 articles by 97 internationally renowned contributors (some of them contributing more than one article, while a number of articles are co-authored). The chapter on entity concepts is opened by an article by L. Mackenzie. It is followed by nine articles elaborating morphological categories that have to do with various entities, such as deixis and reference, person, classifiers, gender and noun classes, diminution and augmentation, number, mass and collection, case, and possession. The chapter on morphological categories expressing distinctions related to states-of-affairs, property and related concepts commences with an article by K. Hengeveld. It is followed by ten articles on individual categories. These two chapters on fundamental issues are followed by four chapters concerned with how morphological phenomena are instantiated in diverse languages.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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