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Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,555
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Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity (Hardcover): Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett

Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity (Hardcover)

Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett

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This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have of being complex, perhaps none is as daunting as what can be achieved by inflectional morphology: this volume examines languages such as Archi, which has a 1,000,000-form verb paradigm, and Chinantec, which has over 100 inflection classes. Alongside this complexity, inflection is notable for its variety across languages: one can take two unrelated languages and discover that they share similar syntax or phonology, but one would be hard pressed to find two unrelated languages with the same inflectional systems. In this volume, senior scholars and junior researchers highlight novel perspectives on conceptualizing morphological complexity, and offer concrete means for measuring, quantifying and analysing it. Examples are drawn from a wide range of languages, including those of North America, New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, alongside a number of European languages. The book will be a valuable resource for all those studying complexity phenomena in morphology, and for theoretical linguists more generally, from graduate level upwards.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2015
Editors: Matthew Baerman (Research Fellow, Surrey Morphology Group) • Dunstan Brown (Professor of Linguistics) • Greville G. Corbett (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-872376-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-872376-8
Barcode: 9780198723769

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