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On inflection / edited by Patrick O. Steinkruger, Manfred Krifka.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 184.
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 184
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Inflection.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.
- Naturalness (Linguistics).
- Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "Gustav" Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology. All contributors to the volume deal with Wurzel's work and thinking, who in his theoretical writings focused on the concepts of naturalness, markedness and complexity in human language. The authors discuss diachronic and typological aspects of morphology, i.e. the nature of paradigms, the rise and fall of inflectional morphology, and the development and systems of gender marking, also in regard to the interface with phonolo
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel's writings
- Gustav's choice. An appraisal of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel's life, personality and linguistic work
- Suppletion: Typology, markedness, complexity
- Reciprocal complementary paradigm structure conditions
- Inflectional morphology and productivity: Considering qualitative and quantitative approaches
- Genericity as a principle of paradigmatic and pragmatic economy. The case of German wer 'who'
- Naturalness and the life cycle of language change
- The Old High German weak preterite
- Aspects of Old and Modern French inflectional morphology: A Wurzelian analysis
- Case syncretism in German feminines: Typological, functional and structural aspects
- Realization-based morphosyntax: The German genitive
- Inflectional morphology in a creole: a report on Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole)
- Gender control - lexical or conceptual?
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- A volume dedicated to Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel (1940-2001).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612425721
- 9781282425729
- 1282425722
- 9783110198973
- 3110198975
- OCLC:
- 647779831
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