30.2884, Books: Inflectional Defectiveness: Sims

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Subject: 30.2884, Books: Inflectional Defectiveness: Sims

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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:55:35
From: Lucy Ridgway [lridgway at cambridge.org]
Subject: Inflectional Defectiveness: Sims

 


Title: Inflectional Defectiveness 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/inflectional-defectiveness?format=PB 


Author: Andrea D. Sims

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107623712 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107623712 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107623712 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new version of a previously announced book.

Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been
considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal
exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that
this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that
paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional
structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional
defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book
presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure
of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses
questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface,
the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a
novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is
significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of
linguistics.

List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1.
Introduction; 2. Defining inflectional defectiveness; 3. On the causes of
inflectional defectiveness; 4. Productivity, defectiveness, and syncretism; 5.
Principal parts, predictability, and paradigmatic gaps; 6. Irreducible gaps
and the morphologization of defectiveness; 7. On learnability and the dynamic
organization of the lexicon; 8. The implicative structure of the paradigm and
other concluding thoughts; Appendix. Information-theoretic and other
probability-based measures of inflectional structure.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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