
Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology.
Title:
Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology.
Author:
Robbeets, Martine.
ISBN:
9789004230477
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (471 pages)
Series:
Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; v.2
Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Part One Theoretical and Typological Issues -- Chapter One Bound morphology in common: copy or cognate? -- Chapter Two Non-borrowed non-cognate parallels in bound morphology: Aspects of the phenomenon of shared drift with Eurasian examples -- Chapter Three Selection for m : T pronominals in Eurasia -- Chapter Four Plural across inflection and derivation, fusion and agglutination -- Chapter Five Bound morphology in English (and beyond): copy or cognate? -- Chapter Six Copiability of (bound) morphology -- Chapter Seven A variationist solution to apparent copying across related languages -- Part Two Case Studies America -- Chapter Eight 'Invisible' loans: How to borrow a bound form -- Chapter Nine Constraints on morphological borrowing: Evidence from Latin America -- Chapter Ten Morphological borrowing in Sierra Popoluca -- Chapter Eleven Cognates versus copies in North America: New light on the old discussion on diffusion versus inheritance -- Eurasia -- Chapter Twelve On the degree of copiability of derivational and inflectional morphology: Evidence from Basque -- Chapter Thirteen Between copy and cognate: the origin of absolutes in Old and Middle English -- Chapter Fourteen Copying and cognates in the Balkan Sprachbund -- Chapter Fifteen Transfer of morphemes and grammatical structure in Ancient Anatolia -- Chapter Sixteen The historical background of the transfer of a Kurdish bound morpheme to Neo-Aramaic -- Chapter Seventeen On the sustainability of inflectional morphology -- Chapter Eighteen Foreign and indigenous properties in the vocabulary of Eynu, a secret language spoken in the south of Taklamakan -- Chapter Nineteen Deriving insights about Tungusic classification from derivational morphology -- Chapter Twenty The likelihood of morphological borrowing: The case of Korean and Japanese.
Chapter Twenty One Shared verb morphology in the Transeurasian languages: copy or cognate? -- Language Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced perspective. Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets provide nothing less than the foundations for a new perspective on diachronic linguistics between genealogical and areal linguistics.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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