description: This textbook, Beginning Morphology and Syntax has the basic purpose of preparing students with no linguistic background to discover the grammatical structure of an unwritten language. The Americanist symbols are used. The Laboratory Manual for Morphology and Syntax, 7th ed, 9781556711497 (revised, 2003) is a practical supplement to accompany the textbook. It contains 298 datasets of problems taken from 117 spoken languages. (IPA) symbols replaced the Americanist symbols in some datasets. PrefaceAcknowledgementsSome abbreviations and symbols 1. The morpheme2. Word structure3. Some semantic categories4. Allomorphs5. Phonological alternation6. Simple sentences and grammatical function7. More on simple sentences8. The phrase9. Kinds of simple sentences with active verbs10. Stative and impersonal sentences11. Modal differences12. Internal relationships13. Word order14. Complex and compound sentences15. Derivation16. Underlying structure and semantic roles17. Word boundaries18. Discourse19. Grammatical description20. The dictionary21. Field methods Appendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 3BibliographyIndex
language: English
title: Beginning Morphology and Syntax
titlecomplete: Beginning Morphology and Syntax (Revised)
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publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics