Leitmotifs in natural morphology / by Wolfgang U. Dressler ... [et al.] ; edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dressler, Wolfgang U., 1939-

Contributor:

Dressler, Wolfgang U., 1939-

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 10.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Naturalness (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Natural Morphology is the term the four authors of this monograph agreed on to cover the leitmotifs of their common and individual approaches in questions of theoretical morphology. The introduction summarizes the basic concepts and strategies of Natural Morphology, to be followed by Mayerthaler who deals with universal properties of inflectional morphology, and Wurzel with typological ones which depend on language specific properties of inflectional systems, and Dressler with universal and typological properties of word formation. The final chapter by Panagl is an indepth study of diachronic

Contents:

LEITMOTIFS IN NATURAL MORPHOLOGY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; A. INTRODUCTION; I. Introduction; B. NATURALNESS IN INFLECTION; I. System-independent morphological naturalness; II. System-dependent morphological naturalness in inflection; C. NATURALNESS IN WORD FORMATION; I. Word formation (WF) as part of natural morphology; II. Productivity and Diachronic Change in Morphology; Abbreviations; General Bibliography; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-164) and index.

ISBN:

9786613222497

1-283-22249-3

90-272-8313-3

OCLC:

742333657