Inflectional Paradigms : Content and Form at the Syntax-Morphology Interface Paperback / softback
by Gregory (University of Kentucky) Stump
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series
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Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics.
Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian, Kashmiri, Latin, Nepali, Noon, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Turkish, Twi and others), Stump examines a variety of mismatches between words' content and form, including morphomic patterns, defectiveness, overabundance, syncretism, suppletion, deponency and polyfunctionality.
He demonstrates that such mismatches motivate a new grammatical architecture in which two kinds of paradigms are distinguished: content paradigms, which determine word forms' syntactic distribution and semantic interpretation, and form paradigms, which determine their inflectional realization.
In this framework, the often nontrivial linkage between a lexeme's content paradigm and its stems' form paradigm is the nexus at which incongruities of content and form are resolved.
Stump presents clear and precise analyses of a range of morphological phenomena in support of this theoretical innovation.
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- Pages:239 pages, 182 Tables, black and white; 33 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/12/2015
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- ISBN:9781107460850
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:239 pages, 182 Tables, black and white; 33 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/12/2015
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- ISBN:9781107460850
