In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features.
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Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.
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1. Taking The Morphological Perspective Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond and Andrew Hippisley 2. Canonical Compounds Andrew Spencer 3. How (Non-)Canonical Is Italian Morphology? Anna M. Thornton 4. Waiting For The Word: Distributed Deponency and the Semantic Interpretation Of Number In The Nen Verb Nicholas Evans 5. Feature Duality Matthew Baerman 6. Canonical Syncretism and Chomsky’s S Mark Aronoff 7. Canonical Tough Cases Johanna Nichols 8. Paradigm Uniformity and The French Gender System Olivier Bonami and Gilles Boyé 9. Case Loss in Pronominal Systems: Evidence From Bulgarian Alexander Krasovitsky 10. Measuring The Complexity Of The Stem Alternation Patterns Of Spanish Verbs Enrique L. Palancar 11. Verb Root Ellipsis Bernard Comrie and Raoul Zamponi 12. Bound But Still Independent: Quotative and Verificative In Archi Marina Chumakina 13. To Agree Or Not To Agree? – A Typology of Sporadic Agreement Sebastian Fedden 14. Where Are Gender Values and How Do I Get To Them? Oliver Bond 15. Focus as A Morphosyntactic and Morphosemantic Feature Irina Nikolaeva 16. When Agreement and Binding Go Their Separate Ways: Generic Second Person Pronoun In Russian Maria Polinsky 17. Rara and Theory Testing In Typology: The Natural Evolution of Non-Canonical Agreement Erich Round
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Full ranging examination of morphology’s role in its canonical and non-canonical aspects

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474446013
Publisert
2021-02-16
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
765 gr
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
172 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
474

Biografisk notat

Matthew Baerman is Principal Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey. His research focuses on the typology, diachrony and formal analysis of morphological systems, with a particular concentration on phenomena that are unusual or difficult to categorize. He is the co-author (with Dunstan Brown and Greville Corbett) of Morphlogical Complexity (CUP, 2017) and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Inflection (OUP, 2015). Andrew Hippisley is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University. He is the co-editor of Deponency and Morphological Mismatches (2007, OUP) and co-author of Network Morphology (2012, CUP).