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The complexities of morphology / edited by Peter Arkadiev, Francesco Gardani.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
- Edition:
- New product edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, offering typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from a wide range of languages, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
- Contents:
- Introduction : complexities in morphology / Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardini
- Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems : a study of Russian nouns / Jeff Parker and Andrea D. Sims
- Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha / John Mansfield and Rachel Nordlinger
- Overabundance resulting from language contact : complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol / Felicity Meakins and Sasha Wilmoth
- Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles / Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, and Delphine Tribout
- Simplification and complexificaiton in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax / Michele Loporcaro
- Canonical complexity / Johanna Nichols
- The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology / Francesca Di Garbo
- Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia / Adam J. R. Tallman and Patience Epps
- Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition / John H. McWhorter
- Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning / Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Arturs Semenuks
- Where is morphological complexity? / Marianne Mithun
- Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach / Östen Dahl.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-189334-X
- 0-19-260551-8
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