Inflectional Paradigms: Content and Form at the Syntax-Morphology Interface

by Gregory Stump

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107460859
• ISBN13: 9781107460850
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"