Historical Morphology / / ed. by Jacek Fisiak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ANDERSEN, HENNING,; ANDERSON, STEPHEN R.,; ARONOFF, MARK,; COMRIE, BERNARD,; DEKEYSER, XAVIER,; DINGLEY, JAMES,; ELIASSON, STIG,; HARRIS, MARTIN,; HOOPER, JOAN BYBEE,; HUNTLEY, DAVID,; KASTOVSKY, DIETER,; LASS, ROGER,; LÜDTKE, HELMUT,; MAŃCZAK, WITOLD,; PLANK, FRANS,; RUDES, BLAIR A.,; SCHUH, RUSSEL G.,; THOMASON, SARAH GREY,; VACHEK, JOSEF,; VINCENT, NIGEL,; WEŁNA, JERZY,; WINTER, WERNER,; WURZEL, WOLFGANG U.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisiak, Jacek,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (476 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of participants -- Morphological change: towards a typology -- On the development of morphology from syntax -- The relevance of productivity in a synchronic description of word formation -- Morphology and word order reconstruction: problems and prospects -- The diachrony of the gender systems in English and Dutch -- Some notes on Byelorussian historical morphology -- Case, word order and coding in a historical linguistic perspective -- The marking of definiteness in Romance -- Child morphology and morphophonemic change -- The evolution of genitive-accusative animate and personal nouns in Slavic dialects -- Zero in morphology: a means of making up for phonological losses? -- Paradigm coherence and the conditioning of sound change: Yiddish 'schwa-deletion' again -- The place of morphology in a universal cybernetic theory of language change -- Laws of analogy -- Encoding grammatical relations: acceptable and unacceptable non-distinctness -- The functional development of the verbal suffix +esc+ in Romance -- Paradigmatic displacement -- Morphological instability, with and without language contact -- Problems of morphology seen from the structuralist and functionalist point of view -- Words versus morphemes in morphological change: the case of Italian -iamo -- On gender change in linguistic borrowing (Old English) -- Morphological signalling of selection properties: transitiveness in Tocharian Β and A verbs -- Ways of morphologizing phonological rules -- Index of terms -- Index of languages -- Index of names