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

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"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.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Inflection.
Table of Contents:
  • What are inflectional paradigms?
  • Canonical inflectional paradigms
  • Morphosyntactic properties
  • Lexemes
  • Stems
  • Inflection classes
  • A conception of the relation of content to form in inflectional paradigms
  • Morphomic properties
  • Too many cells, too few cells
  • Syncretism
  • Suppletion and heteroclisis
  • Deponency and metaconjugation
  • Polyfunctionality
  • Theoretical synopsis and two further issues.

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