Raphael Finkel, Greg Stump, Gregory T. Stump

Morphological Typology

From Word to Paradigm

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this radically new approach to morphological typology, the authors set out new and explicit methods for the typological classification of languages. Drawing on evidence from a diverse range of languages including Chinantec, Dakota, French, Fur, Icelandic, Ngiti and Sanskrit, the authors propose innovative ways of measuring inflectional complexity. Designed to engage graduate students and academic researchers, the book presents opportunities for further investigation. The authors' data sets and the computational tool that they constructed for their analysis are available online, allowing readers to employ them in their own research. Readers can access the online computational tool through www.cambridge.org/stump_finkel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9781107029248
• ISBN-10: 1107029244
• Artikelnr.: 37294845

Autorenporträt

Gregory Stump is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Principal parts
2. Plats
3. A typology of principal-part systems
4. Inflection-class transparency
5. Grammatically enhanced plats
6. Impostors and heteroclites
7. Stems as principal parts
8. The marginal detraction hypothesis
9. Inflection classes, implicative relations and morphological theory
10. Entropy, predictability and predictiveness
11. The complexity of inflection-class systems
12. Sensitivity to plat presentation
13. The Principal-Parts Analyzer.