20.955, Books: Morphology/Syntax: Baerman, Brown, Corbett

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Title: The Syntax-Morphology Interface 
Subtitle: A Study of Syncretism 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics   109  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Matthew Baerman
Author: Dunstan Brown
Author: Greville G. Corbett

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521102759 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 21.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521102759 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 39.99


Abstract:

Note: This is the paperback edition of a previously announced book.

Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic
functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It
results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a language makes a
particular distinction but the morphology does not. This pioneering book
provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a
typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages. The
implications of syncretism for the syntax-morphology interface have long
been recognised: it argues either for an enriched model of feature
structure (thereby preserving a direct link between function and form), or
for the independence of morphological structure from syntactic structure.

This book presents a compelling argument for the autonomy of morphology and
the resulting analysis is illustrated in a series of formal case studies
within Network Morphology. It will be welcomed by all linguists interested
in the relation between words and the larger units of which they are a part. 



Preface; List of abbreviations and symbols; 1. Introduction; 2.
Characteristics of syncretism; 3. Cross-linguistic typology of features; 4.
Formal representation; 5. Formal framework and case studies; 6. Conclusion;
References; Indexes. 


Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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