Paradigms : : The Economy of Inflection / / ed. by Frans Plank.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew,; Chvany, Catherine V.,; Coleman, Robert,; Comrie, Bernard,; Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.,; Gvozdanović, Jadranka,; Heath, Jeffrey,; Kibrik, Aleksandr E.,; Luraghi, Silvia,; McCreight, Katherine,; Plank, Frans,; Zwicky, Arnold M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Plank, Frans,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabl.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude --; Form and function in identifying cases --; Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages --; Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms --; Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar --; Systematic versus accidental phonological identity --; Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning --; Rasmus Rask’s dilemma --; The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies --; Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer --; Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations --; The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana --; Author Index --; Subject Index --; Language Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110889109; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 0933-761X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110889109
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Frans Plank.