Periphrasis - The Role of Syntax and Morphology in Paradigms

Klappentext Periphrasis is the phenomenon of a multiword syntactic sequence having the function of a single morphological form. It therefore straddles morphology and syntax. This volume presents new data and gives examples from diverse languages. Zusammenfassung Periphrasis is the phenomenon of a multiword syntactic sequence having the function of a single morphological form. It therefore straddles morphology and syntax. This volume presents new data and gives examples from diverse languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. The Typological Space: Periphrasis in Four Key Languages 1: Marina Chumakina: Periphrasis in Archi 2: Nicholas Evans: Instability in Stability: Therapeutic and Elaborative Periphrasis in the Dalabon Pronominal Prefix Paradigm 3: Irina Nikolaeva: Periphrasis in Tundra Nenets 4: Gregory Stump: Periphrasis in the Sanskrit verb system II. Syntactic and Morphological Perspectives 5: Olivier Bonami and Gert Webelhuth: The Phrase-Structural Diversity of Periphrasis: A Lexicalist Account 6: Greville G. Corbett: Periphrasis and Possible Lexemes 7: Gergana Popova and Andrew Spencer: Relatedness in Periphrasis: A Paradigm-based Perspective 8: Andrew Spencer: Sentence Negation and Periphrasis

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• Authors: Marina Chumakina, Marina/ Corbett Chumakina, Greville Corbett
• Assisted by: Marina Chumakina (Editor), Marina (Research Fellow Chumakina (Editor), Chumakina Marina (Editor), Greville Corbett (Editor), Greville (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Corbett (Editor), Greville G. Corbett (Editor), Corbett Greville G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780197265253
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726525-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca; Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca
• 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, Grammar, syntax and morphology