Gregory Stump

Morphotactics: Volume 169

A Rule-Combining Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on evidence from a variety of languages, this is a rigorously reasoned guide to morphotactics, the general principles by which the parts of a word form are arranged. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in linguistics, and anyone interested in understanding language structure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009168199
• ISBN-10: 1009168193
• Artikelnr.: 72489356

Autorenporträt

Gregory Stump is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses the structure of inflectional systems, the nature of inflectional complexity, and the logic of morphotactics.Notable publications include Inflectional Morphology (CUP, 2001), Morphological Typology (CUP, 2013, with R. Finkel), and Inflectional Paradigms (CUP, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Canonical morphotactics
2. Rule combinations
3. Dependent rules and carrier rules
4. Rule composition and rule ordering
5. Extending canonical morphotactic criteria to composite rules
6. Rule combinations expressing holistic content
7. Rule aggregation
8. Complex morphotactic interactions in Swahili
9. The non-associativity of rule composition in Murrinhpatha
10. Potentiation and counterpotentiation
11. Rule combinations and morphological simplicity
12. Rule-combining morphotactics and morphological theories
13. Conclusions.