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Inflectional Identity (Paperback, New)
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Inflectional Identity (Paperback, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 18
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A recurrent issue in linguistic theory and psychology concerns the
cognitive status of memorized lists and their internal structure.
In morphological theory, the collections of inflected forms of a
given noun, verb, or adjective into inflectional paradigms are
thought to constitute one such type of list. This book focuses on
the question of which elements in a paradigm can stand in a
relation of partial or total phonological identity. Leading
scholars consider inflectional identity from a variety of
theoretical perspectives, with an emphasis on both case studies and
predictive theories of where syncretism and other "paradigmatic
pressures" will occur in natural language. The authors consider
phenomena such as allomorphy and syncretism while exploring
questions of underlying representations, the formal properties of
markedness, and the featural representation of conjugation and
declension classes. They do so from the perspective of contemporary
theories of morphology and phonology, including Distributed
Morphology and Optimality Theory, and in the context of a wide
range of languages, among them Amharic, Greek, Romanian, Russian,
Saami, and Yiddish. The subjects addressed in the book include the
role of featural decomposition of morphosyntactic features, the
status of paradigms as the unit of syncretism, asymmetric effects
in identity-dependence, and the selection of a base-of-derivation.
The Bases of Inflectional Identity will interest linguists and
cognitive scientists, especially students and scholars of
phonological theory and the phonology-morphology and mind-language
interfaces at graduate level and above.
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