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Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity
Av Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
1548 kr
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This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have of being complex, perhaps none is as daunting as what can be achieved by inflectional morphology: …
Archi
Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective
Av Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
1492 kr
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This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian language. Even straightforward agreement examples are puzzling for syntacticians because agreement involves both …
Features
Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics
Av Greville G. Corbett, Anna Kibort
E-bok, 2010
1109 kr
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This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language.Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, …
Canonical Morphology and Syntax
Av Greville G. Corbett, Marina Chumakina m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
1945 kr
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This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which …
Non-Canonical Gender Systems
Av Greville G. Corbett, Jenny Audring m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
1378 kr
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This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although it has been widely explored from a typological perspective, studies are constantly identifying …
Deponency and Morphological Mismatches
Av CORBETT BAERMAN, Matthew Baerman m. fl.
2007
1340 kr
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Deponency is a mismatch between form and function in language that was first described for Latin, where there is a group of verbs (the deponents) which are morphologically passive but syntactically active. This is evidence of a larger problem involving the interface between syntax and morphology: …
Defective Paradigms
Missing Forms and What They Tell Us
Av Baerman, Matthew Baerman m. fl.
2010
896 kr
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An important design feature of language is the use of productive patterns in inflection. In English, we have pairs such as 'enjoy' ~ 'enjoyed', 'agree' ~ 'agreed', and many others. On the basis of this productive pattern, if we meet a new verb 'transduce' we know that there will be the form …
Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity
Av Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2422 kr
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This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have of being complex, perhaps none is as daunting as what can be achieved by inflectional morphology: …
Archi
Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective
Av Oliver Bond, Greville G. Corbett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2328 kr
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This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian language. Even straightforward agreement examples are puzzling for syntacticians because agreement involves both …
Non-Canonical Gender Systems
Av Sebastian Fedden, Jenny Audring m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2183 kr
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This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although it has been widely explored from a typological perspective, studies are constantly identifying …
Features
Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics
Av Anna Kibort, Greville G. Corbett
Inbunden, 2010
1998 kr
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This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, …
Canonical Morphology and Syntax
Av Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
3036 kr
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This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which …
Agreement
Häftad, 2006
770 kr
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Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. For example, in the sentence 'he runs', the suffix -s 'agrees' in number with the singular pronoun 'he'. Patterns of agreement vary dramatically cross-linguistically, with …
Heads in Grammatical Theory
Av Greville G. Corbett, Norman M. Fraser m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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Contemporary linguistic theories distinguish the principal element of a phrase - the 'head' - from the subordinate elements it dominates. This pervasive grammatical concept has been used to describe and account for linguistic phenomena ranging from agreement and government to word order universals, …
The Syntax-Morphology Interface
A Study of Syncretism
Av Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction but the morphology does not. This pioneering book provides a …
Gender
Av Greville G. Corbett, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2029 kr
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Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in others. In this new, comprehensive account of gender systems, over 200 languages are discussed, from English and Russian to Archi and Chichewa. Detailed analysis of individual languages provides clear …
Gender
Av Greville G. Corbett, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 1991
838 kr
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Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in others. In this new, comprehensive account of gender systems, over 200 languages are discussed, from English and Russian to Archi and Chichewa. Detailed analysis of individual languages provides clear …
Heads in Grammatical Theory
Av Greville G. Corbett, Norman M. Fraser m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
2029 kr
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Contemporary linguistic theories distinguish the principal element of a phrase - the 'head' - from the subordinate elements it dominates. This pervasive grammatical concept has been used to describe and account for linguistic phenomena ranging from agreement and government to word order universals, …
Number
Av Greville G. Corbett, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1844 kr
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Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm - namely the distinction between singular and plural (as in cat versus cats) - is only one of a wide range of …
Number
Av Greville G. Corbett, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
787 kr
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Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm - namely the distinction between singular and plural (as in cat versus cats) - is only one of a wide range of …
The Syntax-Morphology Interface
A Study of Syncretism
Av Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1747 kr
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Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction but the morphology does not. This pioneering book provides a …
Features
Inbunden, 2012
1761 kr
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Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual, ...), Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) …
Morphological Complexity
Av Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1844 kr
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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 …
Morphological Complexity
Av Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
426 kr
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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 …
Features
Häftad, 2012
468 kr
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Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual, ...), Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) …
Expression of Gender
Inbunden, 2013
2130 kr
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Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, …
Expression of Gender
E-bok, 2013
1825 kr
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Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, …
Expression of Gender
Häftad, 2015
515 kr
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Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, …
