Andrew CarstairsMcCarthy discusses current issues in morphology withinlinguistic theory giving fair coverage to all approaches which have beeninfluential over t... » 

Andrew CarstairsMcCarthy discusses current issues in morphology withinlinguistic theory giving fair coverage to all approaches which have beeninfluential over the last twenty years. He concentrates not only on thegenerative linguistic mainstream discussing the lexicalist morphologyinitiated by Chomsky and the syntactically oriented approaches that havedeveloped in the 80s but also on approaches that are less fashionable orrelatively unknown to Englishspeaking linguists.More specifically Current Morphology covers lexicalist morphology in thetradition originating with Chomskys 1970 article Remarks on nominalizationmore syntactically oriented generative approaches which have developed sinceabout 1985 and approaches which have focused on questions largely neglected inthe generative mainstream e.g. the organization of inflectional paradigms andthe kinds of meaning which are typically expressed morphologically.The book is intended for readers with some knowledge of linguistics either aspracticing linguists or as intermediatetoadvanced students. It will be usefulfor syntacticians phonologists and other specialists requiring an overview ofa neighboring branch of linguistic theory. «