Tatyana G. Slobodchikoff

The Evolution of the Slavic Dual

A Biolinguistic Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Developing a new theory of morphosyntactic feature economy in a morphology framework, this book uses a biolinguistic approach to examine the evolution of Slavic languages to discover how some developed a separate dual number category while others have only singular and plural and to explain the evolution of the number category in Slavic languages.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9781498579247
• ISBN-10: 1498579248
• Artikelnr.: 57571845

Autorenporträt

Tatyana G. Slobodchikoff is lecturer of English at Troy University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Problem of the Slavic Dual from a
Diachronic Perspective Chapter 3: The Slavic Dual from a Typological
Perspective Chapter 4: Derivation of the Slavic Dual in Distributed
Morphology Chapter 5: The Slavic Dual and Number Theory Chapter 6:
Morphosyntactic Feature Economy and Reanalysis Chapter 7: Conclusion
Appendix A: Abbreviations Appendix B: Orthographical Systems and
Transliteration Symbols