
Inheritance and Inflectional Morphology
Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek
MaryEllen A. LeBlanc(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 28. October 2015
Book
Hardback
71 pages
978-1-4331-2891-2 (ISBN)
Description
Inheritance, which has its origins in the field of artificial intelligence, is a framework focusing on shared properties. When applied to inflectional morphology, it enables useful generalizations within and across paradigms. The inheritance tree format serves as an alternative to traditional paradigms and provides a visual representation of the structure of the language's morphology. This mapping also enables cross-linguistic morphological comparison.
In this book, the nominal inflectional morphology of Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek are analyzed using inheritance trees. Morphological data is drawn from parallel texts in each language; the trees may be used as a translation aid to readers of the source texts as an accompaniment to or substitute for traditional paradigms. The trees shed light on the structural similarities and differences among the four languages.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
285 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-2891-2 (9781433128912)
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1589-9
Schweitzer Classification
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MaryEllen A. LeBlanc
Inheritance and Inflectional Morphology
Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek
E-Book
11/2015
Peter Lang Verlag
€67.99
Available for download

MaryEllen A. LeBlanc
Inheritance and Inflectional Morphology
Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek
E-Book
11/2015
Peter Lang Verlag
€67.99
Available for download
Person
MaryEllen A. LeBlanc received her PhD. in Germanic linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. As a Fulbright scholar, she studied in Germany at the University of Bonn.
Content
Contents: Inheritance - Old High German - Latin -
Early New High German - Koine Greek - Contrastive Morphology - Conclusion - Appendix.
Early New High German - Koine Greek - Contrastive Morphology - Conclusion - Appendix.