Historical morphology / edited by Jacek Fisiak.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fisiak, Jacek.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Morphology (1978 : Boszkowo, Poland)

Series:

Trends in Linguistics : Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

The Hague ; New York : Mouton, c1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Historical Morphology".

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Table of contents

List of participants

Morphological change: towards a typology / ANDERSEN, HENNING

On the development of morphology from syntax / ANDERSON, STEPHEN R.

The relevance of productivity in a synchronic description of word formation / ARONOFF, MARK

Morphology and word order reconstruction: problems and prospects / COMRIE, BERNARD

The diachrony of the gender systems in English and Dutch / DEKEYSER, XAVIER

Some notes on Byelorussian historical morphology / DINGLEY, JAMES

Case, word order and coding in a historical linguistic perspective / ELIASSON, STIG

The marking of definiteness in Romance / HARRIS, MARTIN

Child morphology and morphophonemic change / HOOPER, JOAN BYBEE

The evolution of genitive-accusative animate and personal nouns in Slavic dialects / HUNTLEY, DAVID

Zero in morphology: a means of making up for phonological losses? / KASTOVSKY, DIETER

Paradigm coherence and the conditioning of sound change: Yiddish 'schwa-deletion' again / LASS, ROGER

The place of morphology in a universal cybernetic theory of language change / LÜDTKE, HELMUT

Laws of analogy / MAŃCZAK, WITOLD

Encoding grammatical relations: acceptable and unacceptable non-distinctness / PLANK, FRANS

The functional development of the verbal suffix +esc+ in Romance / RUDES, BLAIR A.

Paradigmatic displacement / SCHUH, RUSSEL G.

Morphological instability, with and without language contact / THOMASON, SARAH GREY

Problems of morphology seen from the structuralist and functionalist point of view / VACHEK, JOSEF

Words versus morphemes in morphological change: the case of Italian -iamo / VINCENT, NIGEL

On gender change in linguistic borrowing (Old English) / WEŁNA, JERZY

Morphological signaling of selection properties: transitiveness in Tocharian Β and A verbs / WINTER, WERNER

Ways of morphologizing phonological rules / WURZEL, WOLFGANG U.

Index of terms

Index of languages

Index of names

Notes:

"Papers prepared for the International Conference on Historical Morphologsy held at Boszkowo, Poland, 15-18 March 1978."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110823127

3110823128

OCLC:

979839310