Morphological Typology: From Word to Paradigm

ISBN-13: 9781107029248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 428 str.

Raphael Finkel

Opis

This radically new approach to morphological typology is designed to engage graduate students and academic researchers.

Recenzje

'Periodically a book is published which offers such an original perspective that it seems we have never really understood what we thought we knew: this is likely that kind of book for many readers. The cross‐linguistic study of complex morphological systems is establishing the crucial status of words and paradigms in providing insights about natural language organization. With characteristically careful rigor and clarity, Stump and Finkel introduce a new way of analyzing and typologizing inflectional systems. While developing their model would have been enough, the book takes on an even greater dimension as they explicitly explore ways of synthesizing their perspective with recent competing models. Stump and Finkel cause us to pause and consider a new role for morphology in modern linguistic theory. And I suspect that the field will improve, when we do.' Farrell Ackerman, University of California, San Diego

Spis treści

1. Principal parts; 2. Plats; 3. A typology of principal-part systems; 4. Inflection-class transparency; 5. Grammatically enhanced plats; 6. Impostors and heteroclites; 7. Stems as principal parts; 8. The marginal detraction hypothesis; 9. Inflection classes, implicative relations and morphological theory; 10. Entropy, predictability and predictiveness; 11. The complexity of inflection-class systems; 12. Sensitivity to plat presentation; 13. The Principal-Parts Analyzer.