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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plank, Frans.

Series:

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Inflection.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110889109

3110889102

OCLC:

843635516