Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation
Editors: Rainer, F., Gardani, F., Dressler, W.U., Luschützky, H.C. (Eds.)
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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 address a wide range of aspects of competition, including morphophonology, lexicology, diachrony, language contact, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and language acquisition.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Competition in Morphology: A Historical Outline
Pages 3-36
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Competitors and Alternants in Linguistic Morphology
Pages 39-66
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Competition in Derivation: What Can We Learn from French Doublets in -age and -ment?
Pages 67-93
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Competition Between Event-Denoting Deverbal Nouns and Nominal Infinitives in Italian
Pages 95-121
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Rivalry and Lack of Blocking Among Italian and German Diminutives in Adult and Child Language
Pages 123-143
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation
- Editors
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- Franz Rainer
- Francesco Gardani
- Wolfgang U. Dressler
- Hans Christian Luschützky
- Series Title
- Studies in Morphology
- Series Volume
- 5
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-02550-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-02550-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-02549-6
- Series ISSN
- 2214-0042
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 334
- Number of Illustrations
- 37 b/w illustrations
- Topics
