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