Natural History of Infixation

Informationen zum Autor Alan C. L. Yu is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley and has previously taught at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. His main research interests include theoretical and experimental phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface and the phonology-morphology interface. He has published in Language, Phonology, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, the Linguistic Review, and Natural Language Semantics. Klappentext The first cross-linguistic study of infixation explores its prosodic, phonological, and morphological characteristics, considers its diverse functions, and formulates a general theory to explain the rules and constraints by which it is governed. It examines 154 infixation patterns from over a hundred languages, compares their formal properties and explores their diachronic origins. The book will interest phonologists, morphologists, typologists, and historical linguists of all theoretical persuasions. Zusammenfassung Presents the cross-linguistic study of infixation and explores its prosodic, phonological, and morphological characteristics. This book considers its diverse functions, and formulates a general theory to explain the rules and constraints by which it is governed. It examines 154 infixation patterns from over a hundred languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: What is Infixation? 3: Subcategorization in Context 4: Pivot Theory and the Typology 5: The Secret History of Infixes 6: Beyond Infixation References Index of Languages General Index

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• Authors: Alan C L Yu, Alan C. L. Yu, Alan C. L. ( Yu, Alan C. L. (University of Chicago) Yu, Yu Alan C. L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2007
• EAN: 9780199279388
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927938-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology