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Informationen zum Autor James P. Blevins received his Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1990 and has taught in Cambridge since 1997, where he is currently Reader in Morphology and Syntax. He is a general linguist with a primary focus on the structure and complexity of inflectional and grammatical systems. His research approaches these issues from the standpoint of contemporary word and paradigm models, using analytic tools and insights drawn from information-theoretic and discriminative learning perspectives. He has secondary interests in quantitative and computational models of grammatical systems, as well as in aspects of sound and meaning that interact closely with grammar. His main areal interests fall within Germanic, Finnic, Slavic, and Kartvelian. Klappentext This volume discusses the general perspectives on linguistic morphology offered by word and paradigm models. James Blevins places these models in the larger context of the lineage that extends from classical grammars to current information-theoretic and discriminative learning paradigms. Zusammenfassung This volume discusses the general perspectives on linguistic morphology offered by word and paradigm models. James Blevins places these models in the larger context of the lineage that extends from classical grammars to current information-theoretic and discriminative learning paradigms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface List of figures and tables List of abbreviations Part I: The classical WP model 1: Revival of the WP model 2: The Post-Bloomfieldian legacy 3: Words 4: Paradigms 5: Analogy Part II: Contemporary WP models 6: Realizational models 7: Implicational models 8: Morphology as an adaptive discriminative system References Index
