Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 188 Seiten)
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9781316343074
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in linguistics 153
Content:
Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general systems of meaning and function that govern a language, yielding inflection classes and arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is what we call morphological complexity. Manipulating the forms of words requires learning a whole new system of structures and relationships. This book confronts the typological challenge of characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied to such heterogeneous systems.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107543614
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107120648
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107543614
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Baerman, Matthew Morphological Complexity Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781107120648
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107120640
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107120648
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Kontrastive Morphologie
;
Kontrastive Morphologie
DOI:
10.1017/9781316343074
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Corbett, Greville G. 1957-
