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INFLECTIONAL PARADIGMS
CONTENT AND FORM AT THE SYNTAX-MORPHOLOGY INTERFACE |
| By: |
Gregory Stump |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£64.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1107088836 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107088832 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 January, 2016 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 149 |
| Pages: |
239 |
| Description: |
This book explains inflectional paradigms' role as the grammatical nexus at which mismatches between words' content and form are resolved. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
33 b/w illus. 182 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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