Inflectional Paradigms: Content and Form at the Syntax-Morphology Interface

di Gregory Stump (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2015

Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian, Kashmiri, Latin, Nepali, Noon, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Turkish, Twi and others), Stump examines a variety of mismatches between words' content and form, including morphomic patterns, defectiveness, overabundance, syncretism, suppletion, deponency and polyfunctionality. He demonstrates that such mismatches motivate a new grammatical architecture in which two kinds of paradigms are distinguished: content paradigms, which determine word forms' syntactic distribution and semantic interpretation, and form paradigms, which determine their inflectional realization. In this framework, the often nontrivial linkage between a lexeme's content paradigm and its stems' form paradigm is the nexus at which incongruities of content and form are resolved. Stump presents clear and precise analyses of a range of morphological phenomena in support of this theoretical innovation.

• Autore: Gregory Stump
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 239 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• Peso: 450 gr.
• EAN: 9781107460850

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