HISTORICAL MORPHOLOGY Brian
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چکیده
The various chapters of this handbook have painted a fairly complete picture of what morphology is, what constructs are needed in the morphological component of a grammar, and how these constructs interact with one another and with other parts of the grammar. For the most part, the perspective taken on these questions has been purely synchronic, yet, as with all aspects of language (and indeed of human institutions in general), a diachronic perspective is possible as well, focusing on what happens to morphology through time. Thus in this chapter, several questions are addressed which are diachronic in their focus: • what can change in the morphological component? • what aspects of the morphology are stable? • where does morphology come from? • what triggers change in the morphology? • is a general theory of morphological change possible? Moreover, through the answers given to these questions, but especially the first two, several examples of various types of morphological change are presented as well.
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