Analogy, Levelling, Markedness: Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology

ISBN-13: 9783110175523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 395 str.

Lahiri, Aditi

Opis

Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. A traditional umbrella category of change in systems is that of analogy. Somewhat less sanctioned, markedness is a basic relation shaping the structure of systems, in phonology as well as morphology.

Recenzje

"This welcome volume illustrates once more how important historical data can be in linguistic argumentation and how exciting work on the diachronic innovation of linguistic phenomena can be."Patrick Honeybonein: Linguistics 39/2003

O autorze

Aditi Lahiri is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Konstanz.