Morphological Typology - From Word to Paradigm

Informationen zum Autor Gregory Stump is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Kentucky. Klappentext This radically new approach to morphological typology is designed to engage graduate students and academic researchers. Zusammenfassung In this radically new approach to morphological typology! the authors set out new and explicit methods for the typological classification of languages. Drawing on evidence from a diverse range of languages! they propose innovative ways of measuring inflectional complexity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Principal parts; 2. Plats; 3. A typology of principal-part systems; 4. Inflection-class transparency; 5. Grammatically enhanced plats; 6. Impostors and heteroclites; 7. Stems as principal parts; 8. The marginal detraction hypothesis; 9. Inflection classes, implicative relations and morphological theory; 10. Entropy, predictability and predictiveness; 11. The complexity of inflection-class systems; 12. Sensitivity to plat presentation; 13. The Principal-Parts Analyzer.

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• Authors: Raphael Finkel, Raphael A. Finkel, Raphael A. (University of Kentucky) Finkel, Raphael A. Stump Finkel, Greg Stump, Gregory Stump, Gregory (University of Kentucky) Stump, Gregory (University of Kentucky) Finkel Stump, Gregory T. Stump
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107029248
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02924-8
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures