Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On
the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is
plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many
languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely
ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous
over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the
morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general
systems of meaning and function that govern a language, yielding
inflection classes and arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is
what we call morphological complexity. Manipulating the forms of
words requires learning a whole new system of structures and
relationships. This book confronts the typological challenge of
characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological complexity
we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified
descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied
to such heterogeneous systems.
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