Andrea Sims

Inflectional Defectiveness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781107623712
• ISBN-10: 1107623715
• Artikelnr.: 56489430

Autorenporträt

Andrea D. Sims is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University. Her research interests include theoretical morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the organization of the lexicon, and the relationship between lexical processing and morphological structure.

Inhaltsangabe

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.