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.

Table of Contents

• 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