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Historical Morphology.
Title:
Historical Morphology.
Author:
Fisiak, Jacek.
ISBN:
9783110823127
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (490 pages)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; v.17

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Contents:
Preface -- List of Conference Participants -- Morphological change: towards a typology -- On the development of morphology from syntax -- The relevance of productivity in a synchronic description of word formation -- Morphology and word order reconstruction: problems and prospects -- The diachrony of the gender systems in English and Dutch -- Some notes on Byelorussian historical morphology -- Case, word order and coding in a historical linguistic perspective -- The marking of definiteness in Romance -- Child morphology and morphophonemic change -- The evolution of genitive-accusative animate and personal nouns in Slavic dialects -- Zero in morphology: a means of making up for phonological losses -- Paradigm coherence and the conditioning of sound change: Yiddish 'schwa-deletion' again -- The place of morphology in a universal cybernetic theory of language change -- Laws of analogy -- Encoding grammatical relations: acceptable and unacceptable non-distinctness -- The functional development of the verbal suffix +esc+ in Romance -- Paradigmatic displacement -- Morphological instability, with and without language contact -- Problems of morphology seen from the structuralist and functionalist point of view -- Words versus morphemes in morphological change: the case of Italian -iamo -- On gender change in linguistic borrowing (Old English) -- Morphological signalling of selection properties: transitiveness in Tocharian B and A verbs -- Ways of morphologizing phonological rules -- Index of terms -- Index of languages -- Index of names.
Abstract:
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
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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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