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Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles
that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages.
The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of
markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the
interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed
new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of
morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components.
Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class,
case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement,
the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features,
and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical
tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality,
specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various
theoretical frameworks.James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and
EconomyBernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Underspecification
in Russian Declension
In addition to the canonical expression of the argument structure
of verbs in the form of intransitive or transitive constructions
with noun or prepositional phrases, arguments can also be
structured in diverse ways in complex non-canonical form. Such
argument structures show interesting variations, especially in
comparative linguistics, as this volume illustrates based on
studies of German, Romanian, and English.
The volume assembles studies on the morphology and syntax of
reflexive verbs from a variety of theoretical perspectives
(including minimalism and optimality theory), with reference to a
number of languages, and focusing on different syntactic domains
(clause, NP, AcI). As such, it presents a cross section of
present-day research on the field in question.
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