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Words and Paradigms: Peter H. Matthews and the Development of Morphological Theory
Author(s) -
Anderson Stephen R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.12090
Subject(s) - sanskrit , relation (database) , arabic , focus (optics) , history , field (mathematics) , period (music) , linguistics , point (geometry) , epistemology , philosophy , sociology , classics , mathematics , computer science , aesthetics , pure mathematics , physics , geometry , database , optics
A comprehensive review of linguistic accounts of the structure of words and their relation to one another would of course have to begin long ago, with the work of grammarians in the classical Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Arabic and other traditions. As a starting point for an understanding of the views on morphology held by linguists today, though, it seems reasonable to focus on the development of this field over the course of the twentieth century, and especially during the last half of that century, a period in which the work of Peter Matthews played a particularly important role.