Morphological autonomy : perspectives from Romance inflectional morphology

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Morphological autonomy : perspectives from Romance inflectional morphology

edited by Martin Maiden ... [et al.]

Oxford University Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]-470) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed arguments for the autonomy of morphology, ie morphology has phenomena and mechanisms of its own that are not reducible to syntax or phonology. But which principles and rules govern this independent component and which phenomena can be described or explicated by the mechanisms of the morphemic level? In shedding light on these questions, this volume constitutes a major contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to our understanding of the nature and importance of morphomic structure in language change in general.

Table of Contents

  • PART 1: AUTONOMOUS MORPHOLOGY - CORROBORATIONS AND CHALLENGES
  • PART 2: EVOLUTION OF STEM ALLOMORPHY
  • PART 3: INTERFACES WITH SYNTAX OR SEMANTICS?

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  • NCID
    BB06762681
  • ISBN
    • 9780199589982
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 481 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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