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Date: 30-Oct-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Morphological Complexity: Baerman, Brown, Corbett (2023)


Title: Morphological Complexity
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 153
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/langua
ges-linguistics/morphology/morphological-complexity?format=PB

author: Matthew Baerman
author:  Dunstan Brown
author: Greville G. Corbett
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107543614 Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107543614 Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107543614 Price: Europe EURO 28.00
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.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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