THE SYNTAX-MORPHOLOGY INTERFACE by Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett ( 9780521102759 )

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THE SYNTAX-MORPHOLOGY INTERFACE
A STUDY OF SYNCRETISM

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Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 March, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 109

Pages:

304

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This pioneering book provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages.

Synopsis:

Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction but the morphology does not. This pioneering book provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages. The implications of syncretism for the syntax-morphology interface have long been recognised: it argues either for an enriched model of feature structure (thereby preserving a direct link between function and form), or for the independence of morphological structure from syntactic structure. This book presents a compelling argument for the autonomy of morphology and the resulting analysis is illustrated in a series of formal case studies within Network Morphology. It will be welcomed by all linguists interested in the relation between words and the larger units of which they are a part.

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