Explorations in nominal inflection / edited by Gereon Muller, Lutz Gunkel, Gisela Zifonun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Gereon, 1964-

Gunkel, Lutz.

Zifonun, Gisela.

Series:

Interface explorations ; 10.

Interface explorations ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Inflection.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages. The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components. Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class, case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement, the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features, and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality, specificity), under specification, and economy, in various theoretical frameworks. James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and Economy Bernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Under specification in Russian Declension

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Inflection Class, Gender and DP Internal Structure

Inflection Classes and Economy

Left of Number Animacy and Plurality in German Nouns

Feature Sharing in DPs

A Topological Schema for Noun Phrases in German

On Decomposing Inflection Class Features: Syncretism in Russian Noun Inflection

A Factorial Typology of Number Marking in Noun Phrases: The Tension between Economy and Faithfulness

Feature Checking, Case, and Agreement in German DPs

Feminine vs. Non-Feminine Noun Phrases in German

Categories and Paradigms. On Under specification in Russian Declension

Is There Any Need for the Concept of Directional Syncretism?

Back matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613396525

9781283396523

1283396521

9783110197501

3110197502

OCLC:

476120317