Paradigms
The Economy of Inflection
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2011
317 pages
978-3-11-088910-9 (ISBN)
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Edition
Reprint 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Num. figs. and tabl.
Num. figs. and tabl.
File size
47,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-088910-9 (9783110889109)
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Content
- Intro
- Contributors
- Preface
- Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude
- Form and function in identifying cases
- Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages
- Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms
- Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar
- Systematic versus accidental phonological identity
- Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning
- Rasmus Rask's dilemma
- The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies
- Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer
- Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations
- The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Language Index
