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Morphological Complexity
Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general systems of meaning and function that govern a language, yielding inflection classes and arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is what we call morphological complexity. Manipulating the forms of words requires learning a whole new system of structures and relationships. This book confronts the typological challenge of characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied to such heterogeneous systems.
Linguistic Survey of India: Rajasthan Part 1
State wise language survey of major Indian languages and minor dialects.
Konjugationsklassenwandel
Flexionsklassen bilden synchron formale Differenzierungen ohne funktionales Äquivalent - eine Überlegung, die wiederholt zu Abbauprognosen verleitet hat. Dass Klassifizieren im Verbalbereich auf den ersten Blick noch weniger sinnvoll erscheint als in der Deklination, war der Grund, Konjugationsklassenwandel ins Zentrum zu stellen. Gezeigt wird zum einen, dass Konjugationsklassen in der Geschichte der germanischen Sprachen keineswegs zwingend abgebaut, sondern erhalten, reorganisiert und zuweilen neu entwickelt werden. Zum anderen wird deutlich, dass Konjugationsklassenwandel nicht willkürlich, sondern prinzipiengesteuert verläuft, indem er z.B. funktional an den Wandel grammatischer Kate...
The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology
After being dominant during about a century since its invention by Baudouin de Courtenay at the end of the nineteenth century, morpheme is more and more replaced by lexeme in contemporary descriptive and theoretical morphology. The notion of a lexeme is usually associated with the work of P. H. Matthews (1972, 1974), who characterizes it as a lexical entity abstracting over individual inflected words. Over the last three decades, the lexeme has become a cornerstone of much work in both inflectional morphology and word formation (or, as it is increasingly been called, lexeme formation). The papers in the present volume take stock of the descriptive and theoretical usefulness of the lexeme, but also adress many of the challenges met by classical lexeme-based theories of morphology.
Selected Proceedings of the 6th Décembrettes
This volume contains 14 papers selected from those presented at the Décembrettes 6, which were held at the Athénée Municipal in Bordeaux on December 4-6, 2008. The papers are organized into sections on general morphology and inflectional classes.
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