Quiz
Web resources
- Morphology, published by Springer, is one of the only academic journals that is dedicated specifically to morphology. The articles appearing in this journal cover theoretical issues and in-depth descriptions of under-researched languages as well as of linguistic variation. They are generally quite advanced, however. Another specialized journal is Word Structure, published by Edinburgh University Press.
- The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, published by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, is a sizable database with discussions –and pretty maps!– of a variety of linguistic phenomena. The content is, on the whole, relatively accessible. The following chapters are especially relevant here:
- Chapters 20, 21 and 22 for a critique of morphological types and the criteria behind the classification;
- Chapter 27 about reduplication;
- Chapters 30, 31 and 32 about gender;
- Chapter 33 about plural nouns;
- Chapters 35, 39, 44 and 45 about the distinctions that languages make in their personal pronouns;
- Chapters 37, 38 and 41 about articles and demonstratives.
- For more information about how we gloss examples from languages other than English, check out the Leipzig Glossing Rules. This webpage also features a list of the abbreviations most commonly used in glossing.
- Some other interesting articles available online are the following:
- Croft (2020) for an attempt to capture word classes across languages;
- Haspelmath (2017) on the problems with defining the notion of word in the world’s languages;
- Johnston (2006) for a short and accessible introduction to the morphology of sign languages.