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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975309803321

Autore

Dressler Wolfgang U. <1939->

Titolo

Leitmotifs in natural morphology / / by Wolfgang U. Dressler ... [et al.] ; edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 1987

ISBN

9786613222497

1-283-22249-3

90-272-8313-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 10

Altri autori (Persone)

DresslerWolfgang U. <1939->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Naturalness (Linguistics)

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 (p. [155]-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

LEITMOTIFS IN NATURAL MORPHOLOGY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; A. INTRODUCTION; I. Introduction; B. NATURALNESS IN INFLECTION; I. System-independent morphological naturalness; II. System-dependent morphological naturalness in inflection; C. NATURALNESS IN WORD FORMATION; I. Word formation (WF) as part of natural morphology; II. Productivity and Diachronic Change in Morphology; Abbreviations; General Bibliography; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Natural Morphology is the term the four authors of this monograph agreed on to cover the leitmotifs of their common and individual approaches in questions of theoretical morphology. The introduction summarizes the basic concepts and strategies of Natural Morphology, to be followed by Mayerthaler who deals with universal properties of inflectional morphology, and Wurzel with typological ones which depend on language specific properties of inflectional systems, and Dressler with universal and typological properties of word formation. The final chapter by Panagl is an indepth study of diachronic