Cristian Iscrulescu

The Phonological Dimension of Grammatical Markedness

Correlating markedness in phonology and morphology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, the phonology - morphology
interface has been a topic of considerable interest
in theoretical linguistics. This book represents a
contribution to the study of this interface. Couched
in the framework of Optimality Theory, it explores
the correlation between grammatical markedness and
the phonological properties of outputs inflected for
morpho-syntactic categories on a grammatical
markedness hierarchy. The main claim made in the
book is that, under otherwise similar phonological
conditions, outputs carrying specifications for a
marked member of a given grammatical category can
license a given type of marked phonological
structure to an extent that is equal or greater than
outputs inflected for the unmarked category.
Illustrations are provided for the morpho-syntactic
categories of case (Old Saxon), number (Romanian)
and voice (Mayak). The book is mainly intended for
theoretical linguists, researchers and graduate
students, but may also present interest for a larger
circle of readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9783639101775
• ISBN-10: 3639101774
• Artikelnr.: 26081351

Autorenporträt

Cristian Iscrulescu received a PhD in Linguistics from the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has published
papers on phonology, morphology and Romance linguistics. Dr.
Iscrulescu has taught college-level classes in Linguistics and
is currently a linguistic consultant.