Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity Hardback
Edited by Matthew (Research Fellow, Surrey Morphology Group, Research Fellow, Surrey Morphology Group Baerman, Dunstan (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of York) Brown, Greville G. (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Corbett
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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: this volume examines languages such as Archi, which has a 1,000,000-form verb paradigm, and Chinantec, which has over 100 inflection classes.
Alongside this complexity, inflection is notable for its variety across languages: one can take two unrelated languages and discover that they share similar syntax or phonology, but one would be hard pressed to find two unrelated languages with the same inflectional systems. In this volume, senior scholars and junior researchers highlight novel perspectives on conceptualizing morphological complexity, and offer concrete means for measuring, quantifying and analysing it.
Examples are drawn from a wide range of languages, including those of North America, New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, alongside a number of European languages.
The book will be a valuable resource for all those studying complexity phenomena in morphology, and for theoretical linguists more generally, from graduate level upwards.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:238 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2015
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- ISBN:9780198723769
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:238 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198723769
