A. Pounder

Process and Paradigms A. Pounder

This text is not only a contribution to theoretical morphology within the tradition of the "separationist" process morphology, it is also a contribution to sociolinguistics and language change in the sense that it clearly shows how language standardization and its aim of reducing synonomy and polysemy can affect morphological systems. The process-based theoretical model developed by the author is based on extensive empirical data, and it is checked against findings in psycholinguistics, as well as morphology and sociolinguistics.