The regularity of the "irregular" verbs and nouns in English / Elena Even-Simkin, Yishai Tobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Even-Simkin, Elena.

Contributor:

Tobin, Y.

Series:

Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 66.

Studies in functional and structural linguistics (SFSL), 0165-7712 ; volume 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.

English language--Usage.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and inductive methodology employed in this study are further supported by additional first language acquisition data, experimental studies and historical evidence. The data culled from multiple linguistic anthologies, dictionaries and thesauri have shown that although the IVA process comprise

Contents:

part one. Introduction

part two. Background

part three. The non-irregularity hypotheses

part four. Phonological non-irregularity hypothesis

part five. Semantic non-irregularity : the common semantic denominator (CSD) hypothesis

part six. Further evidence for both hypotheses

part seven. Discussion and conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027271761

9027271763

OCLC:

857967954