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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790422303321

Autore

Even-Simkin Elena

Titolo

The regularity of the "irregular" verbs and nouns in English / / Elena Even-Simkin, Yishai Tobin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7176-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Studies in functional and structural linguistics (SFSL), , 0165-7712 ; ; volume 66

Altri autori (Persone)

TobinY

Disciplina

425/.92

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb

Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun

English language - Usage

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

part one. Introduction -- part two. Background -- part three. The non-irregularity hypotheses -- part four. Phonological non-irregularity hypothesis -- part five. Semantic non-irregularity : the common semantic denominator (CSD) hypothesis -- part six. Further evidence for both hypotheses -- part seven. Discussion and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and inductive methodology employed in this study are further supported by additional first language acquisition data, experimental studies and historical evidence. The data culled from multiple linguistic anthologies, dictionaries and thesauri have shown that although the IVA process comprise