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Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface, the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of linguistics.
Paradigm (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Morphology (Linguistics) --- Inflection --- Inflectional morphology --- Paradigmatics (Linguistics) --- Substitution class (Linguistics) --- Inflection. --- Morphology. --- History --- Morphology --- 801.55 --- 801.55 Morfologie--(taalkunde) --- Morfologie--(taalkunde) --- Historical linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- E-books --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Inflection --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology
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Morphological structures interact dynamically with lexical processing and storage, with the parameters of morphological typology being partly dependent on cognitive pathways for processing, storage and generalization of word structure, and vice versa. Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the relationship between linguistic cognition and the morphological diversity found in the world's languages. It includes research from across linguistic and cognitive science sub-disciplines that looks at the nature of typological diversity and its relationship to cognition, touching on concepts such as complexity, interconnectedness within systems, and emergent organization. Chapters employ experimental, computational, corpus-based and theoretical methods to examine specific morphological phenomena, and an overview chapter provides a synthesis of major research trends, contextualizing work from different methodological and philosophical perspectives. Offering a novel perspective on how cognition contributes to our understanding of word structure, it is essential reading for psycholinguists, theoreticians, typologists, computational modelers and cognitive scientists.
Cognitive grammar --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphology --- Linguistics --- Philology
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This introduction to morphology assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and presents the field of morphology in an accessible way. Emphasis is put on presenting a range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages.
Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphology --- Morphology. --- Syntax. --- Phonology. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology
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