{"id":1492,"date":"2011-04-14T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:28:23","slug":"1492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Variation and change in morphology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Variation and change in morphology<\/strong>: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology\u00a0 Meeting, Vienna, February 2008. Ed. by <strong>Franz Rainer<\/strong>, <strong>Wolfgang U. Dressler<\/strong>, <strong>Dieter Kastovsky<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>and <strong>Hans Christian Lusch\u00fctzky<\/strong>. (Current issues in linguistic theory 310.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vii, 249. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/variation-and-change-in-morphology\/oclc\/690799145&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027248268<\/a>. $158 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/efluniversity.academia.edu\/anishkoshy\"><strong>Anish Koshy<\/strong><\/a>, <em>The English and Foreign Languages University, India<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The papers in this volume were selected from presentations at the 13<sup>th<\/sup> International Morphological Meeting held in Vienna in 2008. In their introductory remarks (1\u201313), the editors discuss types of variation (e.g. geographical, language-internal) and their causes (e.g. phonological constraints, language contact, competition between word-formation processes), which they note might lead to breaching the principles of economy in morphology. In particular, two papers raise questions about linguistic economy in morphology: <strong>Laurie Bauer<\/strong>, <strong>Salvador Valera<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>and <strong>Ana D\u00edaz-Negrillo<\/strong>\u2019s discussion (15\u201332) of the competition between <em>en<\/em>-suffixation and conversion in English in deriving two verbs from the same base adjective and its effects on productivity and redundancy; and <strong>Thomas Stolz<\/strong>\u2019s (217\u201344) discussion of pleonastic redundancy in Lithuanian due to multiple definiteness marking.<\/p>\n<p>Approaching the issues in terms of the desire for an optimum output from ranked constraints, <strong>Georgette Dal<\/strong> and <strong>Fiammetta Namer<\/strong> (53\u201373) discuss the derivation of ethnic proper names in French with respect to the interaction of four constraints within the framework of paradigmatic morphology. Similarly, <strong>Elmar Eggert <\/strong>(75\u201387) investigates variation in the derivation of French ethnonyms from toponyms as an instance of probabilistic application of various constraints or factors. <strong>Elke Ronneberger-Sibold <\/strong>(201\u201316) explores the linguistic status, communicative function, and classification or typology of word creation in German as a subtype of extragrammatical morphology within the framework of natural morphology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Paster<\/strong> (177\u201392) explores multiple exponence in Maay plurals through freely ranked constraints within the framework of optimal construction morphology. <strong>Andr\u00e1s Cser<\/strong> (33\u201351) takes up a corpus-based study of the <em>alis-aris<\/em> allomorphy in Latin due to liquid dissimilation and explains it based on the blocking effect of non-coronal consonants and the distance between the two liquids. <strong>Livio Gaeta<\/strong> (89\u2013105) explains the form-meaning mismatch in the infinitive in West-Germanic perfect periphrasis (PftP) in terms of its historic originas marking telicity, its semantic incompatibility in PftP constructions, and the unbounded nature of the infinitive. Working within the framework of network morphology, <strong>Andrew Hippisley<\/strong> (107\u201327) uses the notion of separationism, the independence of form and function, to analyze Latin deponent verbs as an instance of paradigmatic reorganization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ferenc Kiefer<\/strong> (129\u201347) explores Aktionsart as a sprachbund phenomenon, investigating the different ways in which it may enter a language. <strong>Michele Loporcaro<\/strong> (149\u201375) explores Romance past participle agreement in perfective periphrasis as a non-canonical instance of object agreement. <strong>Helena Riha<\/strong> and <strong>Kirk Baker<\/strong> (193\u2013200) discuss Chinese borrowing of words written in Roman script, like <em>T-shirt<\/em> and <em>ATM<\/em>, rather than <em>z\u00ec<\/em>, Chinese characters (generally mandatory in Chinese borrowing), when the words have enough of the properties of <em>z\u00ec<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The book largely concerns European languages. Its value lies in approaching many issues in morphology through constraint and output-based explanations as well as corpus studies, and in the presentation of multiple exponence and non-reductive pleonastic redundancies. These challenge our traditional understanding of a rule-based morphological system shaped by principles of economy, uniformity, and transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variation and change in morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology\u00a0 Meeting, Vienna, February 2008. Ed. by Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, and Hans Christian Lusch\u00fctzky. (Current issues in linguistic theory 310.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vii, 249. ISBN 9789027248268. $158 (Hb). Reviewed by Anish Koshy, The English and Foreign Languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}