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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454122203321

Titolo

On inflection [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Patrick O. Steinkrüger, Manfred Krifka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009

ISBN

1-282-42572-2

9786612425721

3-11-019897-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 184

Altri autori (Persone)

SteinkrügerPatrick O

KrifkaManfred

WurzelWolfgang Ullrich

Disciplina

415/.95

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Inflection

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Naturalness (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A volume dedicated to Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel (1940-2001).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel's writings -- Gustav's choice. An appraisal of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel's life, personality and linguistic work -- Suppletion: Typology, markedness, complexity -- Reciprocal complementary paradigm structure conditions -- Inflectional morphology and productivity: Considering qualitative and quantitative approaches -- Genericity as a principle of paradigmatic and pragmatic economy. The case of German wer 'who' -- Naturalness and the life cycle of language change -- The Old High German weak preterite -- Aspects of Old and Modern French inflectional morphology: A Wurzelian analysis -- Case syncretism in German feminines: Typological, functional and structural aspects -- Realization-based morphosyntax: The German genitive -- Inflectional morphology in a creole: a report on Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole) -- Gender control - lexical or conceptual? -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "Gustav" Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in



his work on paradigm-based morphology. All contributors to the volume deal with Wurzel's work and thinking, who in his theoretical writings focused on the concepts of naturalness, markedness and complexity in human language. The authors discuss diachronic and typological aspects of morphology, i.e. the nature of paradigms, the rise and fall of inflectional morphology, and the development and systems of gender marking, also in regard to the interface with phonolo