Morphological complexity
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書誌事項
Morphological complexity
（Cambridge studies in linguistics, 153）
Cambridge University Press, 2023, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-179) and indexes
First published 2017. First paperback edition 2023
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general systems of meaning and function that govern a language, yielding inflection classes and arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is what we call morphological complexity. Manipulating the forms of words requires learning a whole new system of structures and relationships. This book confronts the typological challenge of characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied to such heterogeneous systems.
目次
- 1. Introduction
- 2. External typology of inflection classes
- 3. Features
- 4. Motivation
- 5. Conditions on paradigms
- 6. Paradigm structure
- 7. Lexicon and grammar
- 8. Morphological complexity and morphological autonomy
- Appendix
- References
- Indices.
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