A fundamental problem in phonological theory is the fact that processes often operate on
consistent subsets of the distinctive features within a segment, like the features that …

How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

Optimality Theory first gained wide exposure from a course taught by Prince and Smolensky
at the 1991 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America. The earliest and still the …

In A-Morphous Morphology, Stephen Anderson presents a theory of word structure which
relates to a full generative grammar of language. He holds word structure to be the result of …

Most recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely
morphological phenomena and has focused instead on interface questions, such as the …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

The structure of the CV tier and its formal descendents has been a matter of much debate in
phonological theory. The original CV tier proposed by McCarthy (1979) has been retained to …

Geert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a
third edition. The book covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of …

" Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject,
this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics …

Prosodic Morphology (McCarthy and Prince 1986 et seq.) is a theory of how morphological
and phonological determinants of linguistic form interact with one another in a grammatical …