Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian, Kashmiri, Latin, Nepali, Noon, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Turkish, Twi and others), Stump examines a variety of mismatches between words' content and form, including morphomic patterns, defectiveness, overabundance, syncretism, suppletion, deponency and polyfunctionality. He demonstrates that such mismatches motivate a new grammatical architecture in which two kinds of paradigms are distinguished: content paradigms, which determine word forms' syntactic distribution and semantic interpretation, and form paradigms, which determine their inflectional realization. In this framework, the often nontrivial linkage between a lexeme's content paradigm and its stems' form paradigm is the nexus at which incongruities of content and form are resolved. Stump presents clear and precise analyses of a range of morphological phenomena in support of this theoretical innovation.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781107460850
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-107-46085-0
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.12.2015
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2015
- Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 458 g
- Seiten: 304
- Format (B x H x T): 149 x 226 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt