Morphological Perspectives : : Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett / / Andrew Hippisley, Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Baerman, Matthew,; Bond, Oliver,; Hippisley, Andrew,
• MitwirkendeR: Aronoff, Mark,; Baerman, Matthew,; Bonami, Olivier,; Bond, Oliver,; Boyé, Gilles,; Chumakina, Marina,; Comrie, Bernard,; Evans, Nicholas,; Fedden, Sebastian,; Hippisley, Andrew,; Krasovitsky, Alexander,; Nichols, Johanna,; Nikolaeva, Irina,; Palancar, Enrique L.,; Polinsky, Maria,; Round, Erich,; Spencer, Andrew,; Thornton, Anna M.,; Zamponi, Raoul,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (474 p.)

Places morphology at the centre of its own research agendaFull ranging examination of morphology’s role in its canonical and non-canonical aspectsChapters by some of the key experts in morphological typology including Bernard Comrie, Andrew Spencer, Mark Aronoff, Maria Polinsky, Oliver Bonami, Johanna Nichols and Nicholas EvansNew thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological featuresIn a field dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Glosses -- List of Contributors -- 1 Taking the Morphological Perspective -- PART I FORM–FEATURE MAPPING -- 2 Canonical Compounds -- 3 How (Non-)canonical Is Italian Morphology? -- 4 Waiting for the Word: Distributed Deponency and the Semantic Interpretation of Number in the Nen Verb -- 5 Feature Duality -- 6 Canonical Syncretism and Chomsky’s S -- 7 Canonical Tough Cases -- PART II WORDS AND PARADIGMS -- 8 Paradigm Uniformity and the French Gender System -- 9 Case Loss in Pronominal Systems: Evidence from Bulgarian -- 10 Measuring the Complexity of the Stem Alternation Patterns of Spanish Verbs -- 11 Verb Root Ellipsis -- 12 Bound but Still Independent: Quotative and Verificative in Archi -- PART III SYNTACTIC DEPENDENCIES -- 13 To Agree or Not to Agree? A Typology of Sporadic Agreement -- 14 Where Are Gender Values? and How Do I Get to Them? -- 15 Focus as a Morphosyntactic and Morphosemantic Feature -- 16 When Agreement and Binding Go Their Separate Ways: Generic Second Person Pronoun in Russian -- 17 Rara and Theory Testing in Typology: The Natural Evolution of Non-canonical Agreement -- Language Index -- Author Index -- Subject Index