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Morphology

Index of SIL publications on Morphology listed by country.

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General works

• Black, H. Andrew and Cheryl A. Black. 2003. "A conceptual introduction to morphological parsing using AMPLE."
• Cahill, Mike. 2008. Review of: Reduplication: doubling in morphology, by Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll.  
• Deusch, Thomas. 1997. Review of: System-congruity and the participles of Modern German and Modern English: a study in natural morphology, by Robert Bloomer.
• Elson, Benjamin. 1959. Beginning morphology-syntax.
• Hansford, Keir. 2007. Review of: Guinea languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification, by William A. A. Wilson.
• Jensen, Cheryl. 1998. "Comparative Tupí-Guaraní morphosyntax."
• Kievit, Dirk. 2004. Review of: The morphology of Dutch, by Geert Booij.  
• Maxwell, Michael. 2003. "Hermit Crab: parsing and generating with classical generative phonology and morphology."
• Maxwell, Michael. 2003. Review of: Inflectional morphology: a theory of paradigm structure, by Gregory T. Stump.  
• Nida, Eugene A. 1944. Morphology: the descriptive analysis of words, volume 1.
• Nida, Eugene A. 1949. Morphology: the descriptive analysis of words.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1965. "Non-linear order and anti-redundancy in German morphological matrices."
• Roberts, John R. 2003. Review of: Morphological productivity, by Laurie Bauer.  
• Snider, Keith. 1997. Review of: Bantu phonology and morphology, Francis Katamba, editor.
• Titrud, Kermit. 1986. The abused και.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Burkina Faso

• Vallette, René. 1985. "Un morphème de classe supplementaire en fulfulde (dialecte du jelgooji, Burkina-Faso)."

Cameroon

• Anderson, Stephen C. 1983. Tone and morpheme rules in Ngyemboon-Bamileke.  
• Anonby, Erik John. 2008. Phonology and morphology of Mambay (Niger-Congo, Adamawa).  
• Henson, Bonnie Jean. 2007. The phonology and morphosyntax of Kol.

Chad

• Weiss, Doris. 2009. Phonologie et morphosyntaxe du Maba.

Côte d’Ivoire

• Marchese, Lynell. 1978. "Le developpement des auxiliaires dans les langues kru."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Olson, Kenneth S. 2001. The phonology and morphology of Mono.

Ethiopia

• Abraha, John and Klaus Wedekind. 1998. Review of: Kunama, by Lionel M. Bender.
• Beachy, Marvin Dean. 2005. An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology.  

Ghana

• Cahill, Michael C. 2007. Aspects of the morphology and phonology of Kɔnni.  
• Callow, John C. 1971. "Derivation in Kasem."

Madagascar

• Egert, Markus and Werner Drossard. 2006. "The semantics of Malagasy actor voice prefixes."  

Sierra Leone

• Koroma, Regine [Fachner]. 1994. Die morphosyntax des Gola.

Togo

• Nicole, Jacques. 1980. Phonologie et morphophonologie du nawdm: Parler de Niamtougou (Togo).
• Nicole, Jacques. 1983. Morphologie du nominal et du verbal en nawdm (langue gur du Togo).

Americas

Bolivia

• Dietrich, Wolf. 1990. "Chiriguano and Guarayo word formation."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1968. Review of: Morphology of Cayuvava, by Harold Key.
• Key, Harold. 1963. Morphology of Cayuvava.
• Key, Harold. 1967. Morphology of Cayuvava.
• Law. 1967. Review of: Morphology of Cayuvava, by Harold Key.

Brazil

• Crofts, Marjorie. 1971. "Repeated morphs in Mundurukú."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1961. "Hishkaryana (Carib) syntax structure I: Word."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1987. "Morphosyntactic areal characteristics of Amazonian languages."
• Dooley, Robert A. 1986. "Sentence-initial elements in Brazilian Guaraní."  
• Everett, Daniel L. 1998. "Wariˀ (Amazonian)."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1973. "Sistemas contrastivos de marcadores de pessoa em duas línguas carib: Apalaí e hixkaryána."
• Harrison, Alec J. 2001. Xavante morphology and respect/intimacy relationships.  
• Payne, Doris L. 1990. "Morphological characteristics of lowland South American languages."
• Taylor, John M. 1984. "Marcação temporal na língua kaiwá."

Chile

• Harmelink, Bryan L. [1987]. "Hacia un analisis funcional de ‘-am’ y ‘-ael’."

Colombia

• Metzger, Ronald G. 1998. "The morpheme KA- of Carapana (Tucanoan)."  

Honduras

• Humnick, Linda Anne. 1991. The phonology-morphology interface in Paya: a lexical phonology approach.

Mexico

• Benton, Joseph P., H. Andrew Black and Barbara Glaser. 1997. "Modeling Chichicapan Zapotec morphology."
• Bickford, J. Albert. 1985. "Spanish clitic doubling and levels of grammatical relations."
• Casad, Eugene H. and Thomas L. Willett, editors. 2000. Uto-Aztecan: structural, temporal, and geographic perspectives: papers in memory of Wick R. Miller by the friends of Uto-Aztecan.
• Clark, Lawrence E. 1962. "Sayula Popoluca morpho-syntax."
• Davis, Marjorie and Margaret Walker. 1955. "Cuicateco: Morphemics and morphophonemics."
• Elson, Ben. 1960. "Sierra Popoluca morphology."
• Elson, Benjamin F. 1956. Sierra Popoluca morphology.
• Gittlen, Laura and Stephen A. Marlett. 1985. "Ñumí Mixtec syllable structure and morphology."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1966. "Metodología para el análisis de sistemas de prefijos en huichol y cora."
• Harrison, Roy and Margaret Harrison. 1984. "Survey of morphology and syntax for Zoque of Copainala."
• Kirk, Paul L. 1959. "A note on morphemic fusion and empty morphs."
• Law, Howard W. 1958. "Morphological structure of Isthmus Nahuat."
• Marlett, Stephen A. 1994. "One less crazy rule."
• Marlett, Stephen A. and Velma B. Pickett. 1987. "The syllable structure and aspect morphology of Isthmus Zapotec."
• Mugele, Robert L. 1977. "Lalana Chinantec y-. Why?."
• Pickett, Velma B. and Virginia Embrey, compilers. 1974. Zapoteco del Istmo: Juchitán, Oaxaca.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1944. "Analysis of a Mixteco text."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1944. Cambios en la forma y el significado debidos a la posicion de los morfemas en la frase: analisis de un texto mixteco.
• Slocum, Marianna C. 1948. "Tzeltal (Mayan) noun and verb morphology."
• Tuggy, David H. 1981. The transitivity-related morphology of Tetelcingo Nahuatl: An exploration in space grammar.
• Upson, Jessamine. 1960. "A preliminary structure of Chatino."
• Waterhouse, Viola G. 1957. "Two Oaxaca Chontal words."

Peru

• Anderson, Ronald J. 1986. "Some considerations in the teaching of functors in agglutinative languages."
• Floyd, Rick. 1992. "Registros del habla e innovación morfológica."  
• Kindberg, Willard. 1961. "Campa (Arawak) morphology."
• Kindberg, Willard. 1975. "Formas vacías en el campa asháninca."
• Parker, Stephen G. 1988. Some universal aspects of coalescence processes confirmed by Chamicuro phonology and morphology.
• Payne, David L. 1978. Phonology and morphology of Axininca (Apurucayali Campa).
• Payne, David L., Judith K. Payne, and Jorge Sánchez S. 1982. Morfología, fonología y fonética del asheninca del apurucayali (campa-arawak preandino).  
• Payne, Doris L. 1987. "A survey of morphological theories (Report on the Milwaukee morphology meeting, April 1986)."
• Payne, Doris L. 1990. "Morphological characteristics of lowland South American languages."
• Payne, Doris L. 1990. Review of: Morfología del caquinte (arawak preandino), by Kenneth E. Swift, Elena Townsend Díez-Canseco and Marlene Ballena Dávila.
• Payne, Doris L. 2004. "Yagua (Peba-Yaguan)."
• Payne. 1990. Review of: Morfología del caquinte (arawak preandino), by Kenneth E. Swift.
• Powlison, Paul. 1962. "Palatalization portmanteaus in Yagua (Peba-Yaguan)."
• Russell, Robert L. 1958. "Algunos morfemas de amahuaca (pano) que equivalen a la entonación del castellano."
• Swift, Kenneth E. 1985. Morphology of Caquinte (Preandine Arawakan).
• Swift, Kenneth E. 1988. Morfología del caquinte (arawak preandino).  
• Thiesen, Wesley. 1975. "Un informe breve de la morfología bora."  
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1986. "Grammatical characteristics of preandine Arawakan languages of Peru."

Suriname

• Nickel, Marilyn. 1984. "Abbreviated forms in spoken Sranan."

United States

• Casad, Eugene H. and Thomas L. Willett, editors. 2000. Uto-Aztecan: structural, temporal, and geographic perspectives: papers in memory of Wick R. Miller by the friends of Uto-Aztecan.
• Stark, Donald S. 1962. "Boundary markers in Dakota."
• Story, Gillian L. 1966. A morphological study of Tlingit.
• Story, Gillian L. 1979. A morphological study of Tlingit.

Asia

China

• Kim, Stephen Suhkyung. 1998. Dongsiang yu tsifa yenjiu.

Indonesia

• Grimes, Charles E., editor. 2000. Spices from the east: Papers in languages of eastern Indonesia.
• Hughes, Jock. 2000. "The morphology of Dobel, Aru, with special reference to reduplication."
• Muthalib, Abdul. 1990. "Kata tugas bahasa tolaki."
• Reesink, Ger P. 1994. "Domain-creating constructions in Papuan languages."
• Takata, Yuko. 1992. "Word structure and reduplication in Kola."

Pakistan

• Hallberg, Daniel G. and Calinda E. Hallberg. 1999. Indus Kohistani: a preliminary phonological and morphological analysis.

Philippines

• Abrams, Norman. 1970. "Bilaan morphology."
• Baklanova, Ekaterina. 2006. "Morphological assimilation of borrowings in Tagalog."  
• Forster, Jannette. 1970. "Morphophonemic changes in Dibabawon."
• Miller, Helen W. 1969. "Mamanwa morphology."
• Pittman, Richard S. 1984. "The morphology/syntax division is a universal."
• Porter, Doris. 1979. "Northern Kankanay morphology."  
• Svelmoe, Gordon and Thelma Svelmoe. 1966. "Dual function of dili in Mansaka."

Thailand

• Thomas, David D. 1983. Review of: a lexicon of Khmer morphology, by Philip N. Jenner and Saveros Pou.

Viet Nam

• Thomas, David D. 1962. "On defining the ‘word’ in Vietnamese."
• Thomas, David D. 1962. "Thế nào là một ‘tiếng (word) trong Việt-ngũ."
• Thomas, David D. 1976. "Comment re ‘The infix /-b-/ in Khmer,’ by Saveros Lewitz."
• Thomas, David D. 1976. "On Khmer polar interrogatives."  
• Thomas, David D. 1983. Review of: a lexicon of Khmer morphology, by Philip N. Jenner and Saveros Pou.

Pacific

Australia

• Hershberger, Ruth. 1964. "-ku ‘then’ and -da ‘now’ in Gugu-Yalanji."
• Pike, Kenneth L. and George L. Huttar. 1977. "How many packages?."

Papua New Guinea

• Austing, John F. and Randolph Upia. 1975. "Highlights of Ömie morphology."
• Bruce, Leslie P. 1975. "Alamblak alveopalatals: Dead portmanteaus."
• Dubert, Raymond E. 2008. Biangai morphology.  
• Ezard, Janet. 2009. Stems and words in Iamalele.  
• Farr, James B. and Cynthia J. Farr. 1975. "Some features of Korafe morphology."
• Firchow, Irwin B. 1987. "Form and function of Rotokas words."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1965. "Kewa clause markers."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1981. "‘Bilong’ as a copula in Chinese Pidgin English."
• Gasaway, Eileen. 1997. "Burum morphophonemics."
• Hooley, Bruce A. 1964. "A problem in Buang morphology."
• Lithgow, David. 1978. "First things first in Dobu."  
• Lloyd, Richard G. 1989. Bound and minor words in Baruya.  
• Reesink, Ger P. 1994. "Domain-creating constructions in Papuan languages."
• Scorza, David P. 1985. "A sketch of Au morphology and syntax."