This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are
distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and …

In a book with far-reaching implications, Edward S. Klima and Ursula Bellugi present a full
exploration of a language in another mode--a language of the hands and of the eyes. They …

This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of
language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is' …

This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological
theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By …

The third edition of this established textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised. It
maintains its broad coverage of topics from phonetics to language variation, and increases …

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 …

This study attempts to broaden the theory of morphology in two respects. First, it is argued
that both inflectional and derivational morphology should be performed within the lexicon …

In the recent literature, reduplication has been claimed to cause two serious problems for
theories of morphology and phonology. First, as McCarthy (1979) points out, no one has …

First published in 1985. Two basic issues figure in this study. The first concerns the
representation of syllabic and accentual structure, and the effects of those structures on the …

A language is a means whereby meanings can be expressed and understood. It follows,
therefore, that a language has to provide for the differential expression of different meanings …