0340950013Morphol.pdf

Understanding Language Series

Series Editors: Bernard Comrie and Greville Corbett

This page intentionally left blank

Understanding

Morphology

2nd edition

Martin Haspelmath

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Andrea D. Sims

The Ohio State University

First Edition Published 2002

This Edition Published 2010

Hodder Education, an Hachette UK Company,

338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH

www.hoddereducation.com

form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any

information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher

or under licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Further details of such

licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing

Agency Limited, of Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

ISBN: 9780340950012

Impression number

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Year

2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 2008 2007

[Environmental statement to be inserted on all biblio pages and deleted by

Production if using printers where statement is NOT true]

Hachette UK’s policy is to use papers that are natural, renewable and

recyclable products and made from wood grown in sustainable forests.

The logging and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the

environmental regulations of the country of origin.

Typeset by Phoenix Photosetting, Chatham, Kent

Printed in Great Britain for Hodder Education, An Hachette UK Company , 338 Euston Road,

London NW1 3BH by CPI Antony Rowe