Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 308 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511486333
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in linguistics 93
Content:
A new contribution to linguistic theory, this book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language. It sets forth the network of hypotheses constituting Paradigm Function Morphology, a theory of inflectional form whose central insight is that paradigms play an essential role in the definition of a language's system of word structure. The theory comprises several unprecedented claims, chief among which is the claim that a language's realization rules serve as clauses in the definition of a paradigm function, an overarching construct which is indispensable for capturing certain kinds of generalizations about inflectional form. This book differs from other recent works on the same subject in that it treats inflectional morphology as an autonomous system of principles rather than as a subsystem of syntax or phonology and it draws upon evidence from a diverse range of languages in motivating the proposed conception of word structure
Content:
Inferential-realizational morphology -- Paradigm functions -- Rule competition -- Headedness -- Rule blocks -- Stem alternations -- syncretism -- Conclusions, extensions, and alternatives
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521780476
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521024228
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521780476
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Morphologie
;
Flexion
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511486333
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