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Kenneth R. Beesley & Lauri Karttunen, Finite State Morphology . Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2003. xviii + 505pp. and CD-ROM. ISBN hardbound 1-57586-433-9, paperbound 1-57586-434-7.

Kenneth R. Beesley & Lauri Karttunen, Finite State Morphology . Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications... 246 Reference Stockwell, Robert P. & Donka Minkova 2001. English words: history and structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Author’s address: (Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy) Department of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand E-mail: andrew.carstairs-mccarthy@canterbury.ac.nz Kenneth R. Beesley & Lauri Karttunen, Finite State Morphology. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2003. xviii + 505pp. and CD-ROM. ISBN hardbound 1-57586-433-9, paperbound 1-57586-434-7. Reviewed by ERWIN CHAN & CHARLES YANG At hand is an unusual book, at least for most readers of the present journal. In Finite State Morphology (henceforth FSM), Kenneth Beesley and Lauri Karttunen provide a detailed introduction to the Finite State approach to morphology developed at the Xerox Corporation, with the associated software on a CD-ROM.1 While these tools are typically deployed for morphological analysis in natural language processing applications, the authors are right to claim linguists as their core audience: this book can be viewed as a work of linguistic theory in the guise of a programming language. Linguists stand much to gain from this book and may even develop a fuller appreciation of themselves, as we shall explain. An itemized summary is neither the most exciting nor the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Word Structure Edinburgh University Press

Kenneth R. Beesley & Lauri Karttunen, Finite State Morphology . Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2003. xviii + 505pp. and CD-ROM. ISBN hardbound 1-57586-433-9, paperbound 1-57586-434-7.

Chan, Erwin; Yang, Charles
Word Structure , Volume 1 (2): 246 – Oct 1, 2008
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Edinburgh University Press
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© The Edinburgh Law Review Trust and the Contributors 2008
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1750-1245
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10.3366/E1750124508000263
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246 Reference Stockwell, Robert P. & Donka Minkova 2001. English words: history and structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Author’s address: (Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy) Department of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand E-mail: andrew.carstairs-mccarthy@canterbury.ac.nz Kenneth R. Beesley & Lauri Karttunen, Finite State Morphology. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2003. xviii + 505pp. and CD-ROM. ISBN hardbound 1-57586-433-9, paperbound 1-57586-434-7. Reviewed by ERWIN CHAN & CHARLES YANG At hand is an unusual book, at least for most readers of the present journal. In Finite State Morphology (henceforth FSM), Kenneth Beesley and Lauri Karttunen provide a detailed introduction to the Finite State approach to morphology developed at the Xerox Corporation, with the associated software on a CD-ROM.1 While these tools are typically deployed for morphological analysis in natural language processing applications, the authors are right to claim linguists as their core audience: this book can be viewed as a work of linguistic theory in the guise of a programming language. Linguists stand much to gain from this book and may even develop a fuller appreciation of themselves, as we shall explain. An itemized summary is neither the most exciting nor the

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