Inflectional paradigms : content and form at the syntax-morphology interface / Gregory Stump.

"Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian, Kashmiri, Latin, Nepali, Noon, Old Nors...

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Main Author: Stump, Gregory T. (Gregory Thomas), 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 149.
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Summary:"Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian, Kashmiri, Latin, Nepali, Noon, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Turkish, Twi and others), Stump examines a variety of mismatches between words' content and form, including morphomic patterns, defectiveness, overabundance, syncretism, suppletion, deponency and polyfunctionality. He demonstrates that such mismatches motivate a new grammatical architecture in which two kinds of paradigms are distinguished: content paradigms, which determine word forms' syntactic distribution and semantic interpretation, and form paradigms, which determine their inflectional realization. In this framework, the often nontrivial linkage between a lexeme's content paradigm and its stems' form paradigm is the nexus at which incongruities of content and form are resolved. Stump presents clear and precise analyses of a range of morphological phenomena in support of this theoretical innovation"--
Physical Description:xxiv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781107088832
1107088836
9781107460850
1107460859