28.3054, Books: Morphological Complexity: Baerman, Brown, Corbett

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:48:17
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: Morphological Complexity: Baerman, Brown, Corbett

Title: Morphological Complexity 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 153  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/morphology/morphological-complexity 

Author: Matthew Baerman
Author: Dunstan Brown
Author: Greville G. Corbett

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107120648 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107120648 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107120648 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 110.50

Abstract:

Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand
it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in
the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well
without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as
a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the
morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general systems of
meaning and function that govern a language, yielding inflection classes and
arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is what we call morphological
complexity. Manipulating the forms of words requires learning a whole new
system of structures and relationships. This book confronts the typological
challenge of characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological
complexity we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified
descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied to such
heterogeneous systems.

1. Introduction
2. External typology of inflection classes
3. Features
4. Motivation
5. Conditions on paradigms
6. Paradigm structure
7. Lexicon and grammar
8. Morphological complexity and morphological autonomy
Appendix
References
Indices.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Typology

Written In: English  (eng)

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