16.1375, Books: Morphology/Typology: Iggesen

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Subject: 16.1375, Books: Morphology/Typology: Iggesen

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Date: 29-Apr-2005
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Case-Asymmetry: Iggesen 

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:55:18
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Case-Asymmetry: Iggesen 

Title: Case-Asymmetry 
Subtitle: A world-wide typological study on lexeme-class-dependent deviations 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 09  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-europa.com

Author: Oliver A. Iggesen, University of Bremen

Hardback: ISBN: 3895863750 Pages: 660 Price: Europe EURO 124.00
Hardback: ISBN: 3895863750 Pages: 660 Price: U.S. $ 163.68
Hardback: ISBN: 3895863750 Pages: 660 Price: U.K. £ 85.52

Abstract:

It is common knowledge that in a number of European languages (e.g.
English) certain case categories apply only to a subset of the overall
stock of nominal lexemes, while being absent from the inflectional system
of the rest.  Thus, not all languages make use of their noun-inflectional
potential in a consistent and generalized fashion.  For this principled
variation in morphological behavior Oliver A. Iggesen's monograph
introduces the terminological pair case-symmetry vs. case-asymmetry. 
Case-asymmetry has hitherto received hardly any attention in linguistic
literature, neither from a theoretical nor from an empirical perspective. 
If ever, its occurrence in European languages has been dismissed as
accidental, and extra-European instances are usually not known to scholars
of linguistics.

Iggesen's book closes this gap by exploring case-asymmetry from a
typological perspective on the basis of a 260-language sample.  The author
demonstrates that this underestimated property is indeed manifested by a
considerable number of languages.  Following a discussion of the
theoretical foundations and implications of this concept, Iggesen provides
a detailed documentation of the identified instances of case-asymmetry and
introduces a meaningful typological sub-classification of the phenomenon. 
Furthermore, he shows that case-asymmetry is functionally motivated and
integrated into the even broader domain of differential relational marking.
The book is supplemented by typological maps. 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Typology

Written In: English  (ENG)

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