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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810153603321

Titolo

Paradigms : the economy of inflection / / edited by Frans Plank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991

ISBN

3-11-088910-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 9

Classificazione

ET 320

Altri autori (Persone)

PlankFrans

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Inflection

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

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 -- Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude / Plank, Frans -- Form and function in identifying cases / Comrie, Bernard -- Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages / Luraghi, Silvia -- Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms / Heath, Jeffrey -- Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar / McCreight, Katherine / Chvany, Catherine V. -- Systematic versus accidental phonological identity / Zwicky, Arnold M. -- Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- Rasmus Rask's dilemma / Plank, Frans -- The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies / Coleman, Robert -- Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer / Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew -- Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations / Kibrik, Aleksandr E. -- The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

Paradigms : The Economy of Inflection  Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]