
Explorations in Nominal Inflection
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2004
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Mixed media product
VI, 404 pages
978-3-11-916486-3 (ISBN)
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Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages. The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components. Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class, case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement, the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features, and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality, specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various theoretical frameworks.James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and EconomyBernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Underspecification in Russian Declension
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Includes a print version and an ebook
ISBN-13
978-3-11-916486-3 (9783119164863)
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Gereon Müller | Lutz Gunkel | Gisela Zifonun
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Gereon Müller is Professor at the German Department, University of Leipzig, Germany. Lutz Gunkel is Researcher at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany. Gisela Zifonun is Professor of Linguistics and head of the Grammar Group at the Instiut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany.