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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464135203321

Titolo

Analogy, levelling, markedness : principles of change in phonology and morphology / / edited by Aditi Lahiri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2003

ISBN

3-11-089991-4

Edizione

[Second and revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LahiriAditi <1952->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Analogy (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Linguistic change

Markedness (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- Introduction / Lahiri, Aditi -- Analogy as optimization: 'exceptions' to Sievers' Law in Gothic / Kiparsky, Paul -- Analogical levelling of vowel length in West Germanic / Dresher, B. Elan -- Hierarchical restructuring in the creation of verbal morphology in Bengali and Germanic: Evidence from phonology / Lahiri, Aditi -- Constraints on schwa apocope in Middle High German / Raffelsiefen, Renate -- Morphological re-activation and phonological alternations: Evidence for voiceless restructuring in German / Plank, Frans -- Inflectional system and markedness / Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich -- On the origin and development of the Central Franconian tone contrast / Gussenhoven, Carlos -- The origin of Danish stød / Riad, Tomas -- Prosodic variation in 'Lutgart' / Fikkert, Paula -- The revenge of the uneven trochee: Latin main stress, metrical constituency, stress-related phenomena and OT / Jacobs, Haike -- On the (non-)existence of High Vowel Deletion / Hogg, Richard M. -- Index of subjects -- Index of names -- Index of languages