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Author : Franz Rainer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248268
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Author : Antje Dammel,Oliver Schallert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262561
Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering a wide range of phenomena (e.g. negation structures, form function-mismatches in the verbal and nominal domain, loss of morphosyntactic feature values, etc.), the contributions to this volume combine in-depth empirical studies with the explanatory potential of modern theories of grammar as well as approaches for capturing and modelling microtypological diversity.
Author : Scott F. Kiesling
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748637638
The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and linguistic perception. By considering both structure and meaning, Scott F. Kiesling examines the most important issues surrounding variation theory, including canonical studies and terms as well as challenges to them.
Author : Catherine Delesse,Elise Louviot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527512238
This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. Just like any other language, English is a complex system made up of several interconnected sub-systems – lexical, syntactical, phonological, morphological – and all of those sub-systems are subject to change, resulting in constant shifts and readjustments. Additionally, more than some other languages, English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly with the influence of Scandinavian and Romance languages in the Middle Ages. The contributions here consider all aspects of that complex history, with four of them taking a particular interest in the issues brought about by language contact with French and Latin.
Author : Elisa Mattiello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009168281
Based on corpus data, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of a morphological phenomenon in Modern English, Combining Forms (CFs).
Author : David Fertig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110929904
Using a data base of more than 86,000 verb tokens taken from a collection of autograph texts written by fifty-one different natives of Nuremberg between 1356 and 1619, this book explores some of the many changes in verbal inflection that took place during the Early New High German period and the implications of these changes for a number of important issues in morphological and diachronic theory. Nearly all instances of change or variation in verbal inflection observable in the texts are described. Changes discussed at greater length include: the leveling of certain stem-vowel alternations among the strong, weak, and preterite-present verbs; the leveling of the consonant alternations attributed to Verner's Law; regularizations of originally strong and preterite-present verbs and irregularizations of originally weak verbs; shifts in the lexical distribution of the past-participle prefix ge-; and changes in many forms of the verb sein. The nature and size of the data base, the number and diversity of writers included, and innovative methods of data collection and analysis make possible a description of these changes that is in many cases more detailed than any previously available account. This empirical work provides a foundation for the discussion of a number of theoretical questions, including: the role of factors such as iconicity, system congruity and type and token frequency in morphological change; the directionality of analogical leveling; the adequacy of connectionist and related models of morphological processing; the nature of morphological haplology; and the relationship between sociolinguistic variation and diachronic change.
Author : Lunella Mereu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284624
The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lexical-functional grammar to grammaticalization theory, taking into account both synchronic variation and diachronic change. The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.
Author : Lieselotte Anderwald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521884976
This book argues that, contrary to popular opinion, dialects do have a grammar, and that 'non standard' language often makes more sense.
Author : Matthias Eitelmann,Dagmar Haumann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257956
Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a heuristic approach, morphological extravagance captures word-formation processes characterised by constraint violations, interface phenomena as well as borderline phenomena not easily reconcilable with traditional postulates of morphological accounts. In this regard, the notion of extravagance allows for an exploration of rule-bending language use both empirically and theoretically. The volume makes a valuable contribution to studies on morphological variation, which has only recently seen a renewed and growing interest in morphological phenomena that challenge morphological frameworks. The volume is of interest to all researchers who seek to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms and factors at work in morphological variation and who are interested in the reassessment of morphological theorising in light of empirical data.
Author : Andrew Hippisley,Gregory Stump
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316712450
The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.
Author : Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668984
Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Construction Morphology...
Author : David W. Lightfoot,Jonathan Havenhill
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781626166646
This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles. Language variation research asks broad questions such as, "Why are languages' grammatical structures different from one another?" as well as more specific word-level questions such as, "Why are words that are pronounced differently still recognized to be the same words?" Too often, research on variation has been siloed based on the particular question—sociolinguists do not talk to historical linguists, who do not talk to phoneticians, and so on. This edited volume seeks to bring discussions from different subfields of linguistics together to explore language variation in a broader sense and acknowledge the complexity and interwoven nature of variation itself.
Author : Joel Rini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236852
After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir 'to sleep', morir 'to die', the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres 'you are'. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed.
Author : John Mansfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501503306
Murrinhpatha is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in a region of tropical savannah and tidal inlets on the north coast of the continent. Some 3000 speakers live mostly in the towns of Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga, though they maintain close ties to their traditional lands, totems and spirit ancestors. Murrinhpatha word structure is highly complex, and quite distinct from the better-known Pama-Nyungan languages of central and southern Australia. Murrinhpatha is characterised by prolific compounding, clitic clusters, cumulative inflection, irregular allomorphy and phonological assimilation. This book provides a comprehensive account of these phenomena, giving particular attention to questions of morphological constituency, lexical storage, and whether there is really such thing as a ‘word’ unit.
Author : Peter Arkadiev,Francesco Gardani
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198861287
This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, offering typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from a wide range of languages, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
