Overview
- The first comprehensive treatment of competition between semantic categories in morphology
- Offers insights on phenomena in a wide range of languages
- With contributions by an international group of highly regarded authors
Part of the book series: Studies in Morphology (SUMO, volume 5)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Derivational Morphology
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Front Matter
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Inflectional Morphology
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Front Matter
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Multiword Expressions and Compounding
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention. Semantic categories, such as concepts, classes, and feature bundles, can be expressed by more than one form or formal pattern. This departure from the ideal principle "one form – one meaning" is particularly frequent in morphology, where it has been treated under diverse headings, such as blocking, Elsewhere Condition, Pāṇini's Principle, rivalry, synonymy, doublets, overabundance, suppletion and other terms. Since these research traditions, despite the heterogeneous terminology, essentially refer to the same underlying problems, this volume unites the phenomena studied in this field of linguistic morphology under the more general heading of competition.
The volume features an extensive state of the art report on the subject and 11 research papers, which represent various theoretical approaches to morphology and addressa wide range of aspects of competition, including morphophonology, lexicology, diachrony, language contact, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and language acquisition.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation
Editors: Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Hans Christian Luschützky
Series Title: Studies in Morphology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02550-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02549-6Published: 27 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02550-2Published: 17 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2214-0042
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0050
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 334
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations
Topics: Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Corpus Linguistics