Features

Informationen zum Autor Greville G. Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Surrey, where he leads the Surrey Morphology Group. His previous works on the typology of features include Gender (1991), Number (2000) and Agreement (2006). Klappentext A unique examination of the features of language: how features vary between languages and also how they work. Zusammenfassung A unique examination of a central concept of linguistic analysis: features! such as Number! Person and Tense. Corbett brings together two issues: how features vary between languages and how they work. The book has wide relevance across the discipline. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Why features?; 2. Formal perspectives: the internal structure of features; 3. Features for different components; 4. Justifying particular features and their values; 5. Typology; 6. Canonical typology and features; 7. Determining feature values: a case study on case; 8. Feature-value mismatches; 9. Conclusions; Appendix: standards and implementations; Reference; Author index; Language index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: Greville G. Corbett, Greville G. (University of Surrey) Corbett, Corbett Greville G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107661080
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66108-0
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology