Tables

Chapter 1. What are morphology and syntax?

Section 1.1. What is morphology?

Table 1. Words with un–

Chapter 2. The scientific method in morphosyntax

Section 2.3. Prescriptivism and descriptivism

Table 1. Some contractions of standardized English
Table 2. Examples of prescriptive rules in English
Table 3. Change in the comparative and superlative forms of fun

Section 2.4. The lexicon and dictionaries

Table 1. The differences between mental lexicons and dictionaries

Section 2.5. Becoming a linguist: Identifying academic sources

Table 1. Kinds of publications

Chapter 4. Linguistic data in morphosyntax

Section 4.2. Methods of data collection

Table 1. Classification of data collection methods

Section 4.7. Becoming a linguist: Glossing spoken language data

Table 1. Acceptability markings

Section 4.8. Becoming a linguist: Glossing signed language data

Table 1. Common symbols in signed language glosses (adapted from Baker et al. 2016: 338-339)
Table 2. Common abbreviations for non-manual markers in ASL (adapted from Baker et al. 2016: 339-340)

Chapter 4 practice exercises

Table 1. Mini Yoruba dictionary
Table 2. Yoruba pronoun paradigm

Chapter 6. Kinds of morphemes and morphological processes

Section 6.10. Guided reading: Is n’t a clitic or an affix?

Table 1: Non-standard transciption used in Zwicky and Pullum (1983)

Chapter 7. Predicates, arguments, and clauses

Section 7.2. Arguments

Table 1. Kinds of transitivity
Table 2. Ditransitive constructions

Section 7.4. Statements, questions, and commands

Table 1. Combinations of main and embedded clause functions

Chapter 8. Parts of speech

Section 8.1. Determining part of speech

Table 1: Traditional semantic definitions of parts of speech

Section 8.2. Nouns

Table 1. English derivational morphemes
Table 2. English personal pronouns
Table 3. The meanings of some common cases.
Table 4. Niuean personal pronouns (Seiter 1980: 49)
Table 5. Inflectional paradigms of different gender singular nouns in Russian

Table 7. Deverbal nouns (V → N) (adapted from Haspelmath and Sims 2010: 87)
Table 8. Deadjectival nouns (A → N) (adapted from Haspelmath and Sims 2010: 87)
Table 9. Denominal nouns (N → N) (adapted from Haspelmath and Sims 2010: 87)

Section 8.4. Adjectives and adverbs

Table 1. The inflectional paradigms of some English adjectives
Table 2. Deverbal adjectives (V → A) (adapted from Haspelmath and Sims 2010: 89)
Table 3. Denominal adjectives (N → A) (adapted from Haspelmath and Sims 2010: 89)
Table 4. Deadjectival adjectives (A → A) (adapted from Haspelmath and Sims 2010: 89)

Section 8.5. Functional parts of speech

Table 1. Subclasses of the determiner category
Table 2. Examples of some gender-neutral neopronouns in English
Table 3. Some possible parts of speech of question words in English
Table 4. Subclasses of the tense category

Chapter 9.Words

Section 9.1. Word formation processes

Table 1. Examples of derivation in English
Table 2. The productivity of -ish and -ness

Section 9.3. Packaging words and morphemes

Figures

Chapter 1. What are morphology and syntax?

Section 1.1. What is morphology?

Figure 1. An untidy workspace. Photo by SN.CHE. Used under Pexels license.
Figure 2. A selection of pumpkins. Photo by Allie Reefer. Used under Pexels license.
Figure 3. Language play. Photo by Thirdman. Used under Pexels license.

Section 1.3. Morphosyntax as a subfield of linguistics

Figure 1: A toddler kicking a ball in a field. Photo by Paul Ney. Used under CC BY-NC-SA license.

Chapter 2. The scientific method in morphosyntax

Section 2.2. Evidence and hypotheses

Figure 1. A decorative ghost. Photo by Juan Vargas. Used under Pexels license.
Figure 2. Four macarons. Photo by Arminas Raudys. Used under Pexels license.

Section 2.4. The lexicon and dictionaries

Figure 1: The Dictionary of Proto-Algonquian by David Pentland. This dictionary includes a lot of etymological information about numerous Algonquian languages, which would not be included in the mental lexicons of speakers. Photo by Julie Doner. Reproduced with permission.

Section 2.6. Becoming a linguist: Scientific writing in morphosyntax

Figure 1: A model of a carbon atom. Photo by SrKellyOP. Used under CC0 1.0 license.

Chapter 3. Theories of grammar and language acquisition

Section 3.1. Becoming a linguist: Scientific writing in morphosyntax

Figure 1. A speed limit sign. Photo by Shahnoor Habib Munmun. Used under CC BY 3.0 license.
Figure 2. A bookshelf at a university library in the Indigenous languages section. This section contains reference and pedagogical grammars, as well as dictionaries, texts in Indigenous languages, and academic books on specific topics in Indigenous linguistics. What kinds of books can you spot in this picture? Photo by Julie Doner.
Figure 3: A page from a pedagogical grammar of Yoruba (Mosadomi 2011). Yoruba is a member of the Niger-Congo language family and is spoken primarily in Nigeria with over 43 million native speakers (Eberhard et al. 2023).
Figure 4: A picture of page 35 of Bloomfield (1957), a classic reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (also known as Eastern Ojibwa). Nishnaabemwin belongs to the Algonquian language family and is spoken by about 220 people in Canada, according to the 2021 census. It is spoken in and around Lake Huron, especially Manitoulin Island (Eberhard et al. 2023). Photo by Julie Doner.

Section 3.2. Generative grammar

Figure 1: Noam Chomsky in 2004. Photo by Duncan Rawlinson. Used under CC BY-NC 2.0 license.
Figure 2: A bicycle. Photo by LUM3N. Used under Pixabay Content License.

Chapter 4. Linguistic data in morphosyntax

Section 4.8. Becoming a linguist: Glossing signed language data

Figure 1. Differences between ASL and STS in handshape meanings (Anderson et al. 2022 Section 3.8).
Figure 2. Different orientations of the right hand as seen from the signer’s point of view (Anderson et al. 2022 Section 3.8).

Chapter 6. Kinds of morphemes and morphological processes

Section 6.2. Affixes

Figure 1. A stack of five books. Photo by Julie Doner.
Figure 2. A stack of books with one book inside of another book. Photo by Julie Doner.

Section 6.8. Becoming a linguist: Anatomy of an academic article

Figure 1. The first page of an academic journal article, Bjorkman (2022), published by the Canadian Journal of Linguistics. Used under CC BY 4.0 license.

Chapter 8. Parts of speech

Section 8.2. Nouns

Figure 1: A schematic representation of nominative-accusative case alignment.
Figure 2: A schematic representation of ergative-absolutive case alignment.