Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology
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With examples drawn from over 200 world languages, this ground-breaking volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of evaluative morphology. Offering an innovative approach to major theoretical questions, the Edinburgh Handbook analyses the field from a cross-linguistic perspective, considering semantic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects, as well as word-formation processes and evaluative morphology acquisition. Complementing the synchronic approach with a diachronic perspective, this study establishes a picture of intriguing diversity in evaluative morphology manifestations, and offers a comprehensive analysis of the situation in dozens of languages and language families.
Divided into 2 distinct parts, the handbook begins with 13 chapters discussing evaluative morphology in relation to areas such as pragmatics, semantics, linguistic universals and sociolinguistics. The second part is comprised of descriptive chapters, broken into the following subsets: Eurasia, South- East Asia and Oceania, Australia-New Guinea, Africa, North America and South America.
Nicola Grandi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. His research interests include morphology, linguistic typology and language contact. He is the author of two previous monographs on evaluative morphology: Morfologie in Contatto and I Verbi Deverbali Suffissati in Italiano. He co-authored Lingue d’Europa (with E. Banfi) and co-edited Le Lingue Extraeuropee (with E. Banfi) and is the author of numerous articles on evaluative morphology. Lívia Körtvélyessy is a lecturer at P.J. Šafárik University, Kosice. Her research interests include word formation from cross-linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, and cross-linguistic research into morphology. She is the author of a monograph on the sociolinguistic aspects of word-formation productivity (in 2010, published in Slovak) and she has just published Word Formation in the World’s Languages: A Typological Survey (with Pavol Stekauer and Salvador Valera) with Cambridge University Press.