1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828519003321

Autore

Körtvélyessy Lívia

Titolo

Evaluative morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective / / by Lívia Körtvélyessy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7341-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology - Data processing

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES, MAPS, TABLESAND CHARTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""APPENDIX A""; ""APPENDIX B ""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the results of the first interdisciplinary approach to evaluative morphology based on the intersection of evaluative morphology and areal typology, and provides the first large-scale typological research based on a sample of 200 languages. Furthermore, it also represents the first work dealing with evaluative morphology as a feature of Standard Average European by comparing the SAE and world samples. Methodologically, it introduces the parameter of Evaluative Morphology Saturation, which identifies the richness of evaluative morphology in individual languages by reflecting t