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portada Morphological Complexity (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
200
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781107120648
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Morphological Complexity (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

Matthew Baerman; Dunstan Brown; Greville G. Corbett (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

Morphological Complexity (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) - Matthew Baerman; Dunstan Brown; Greville G. Corbett

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Synopsis "Morphological Complexity (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) "

Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general systems of meaning and function that govern a language, yielding inflection classes and arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is what we call morphological complexity. Manipulating the forms of words requires learning a whole new system of structures and relationships. This book confronts the typological challenge of characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied to such heterogeneous systems.

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