Full Description
In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features.
Contents
1. Taking The Morphological Perspective
Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond and Andrew Hippisley
2. Canonical Compounds
Andrew Spencer
3. How (Non-)Canonical Is Italian Morphology?
Anna M. Thornton
4. Waiting For The Word: Distributed Deponency and the Semantic Interpretation Of Number In The Nen Verb
Nicholas Evans
5. Feature Duality
Matthew Baerman
6. Canonical Syncretism and Chomsky's S
Mark Aronoff
7. Canonical Tough Cases
Johanna Nichols
8. Paradigm Uniformity and The French Gender System
Olivier Bonami and Gilles Boyé
9. Case Loss in Pronominal Systems: Evidence From Bulgarian
Alexander Krasovitsky
10. Measuring The Complexity Of The Stem Alternation Patterns Of Spanish Verbs
Enrique L. Palancar
11. Verb Root Ellipsis
Bernard Comrie and Raoul Zamponi
12. Bound But Still Independent: Quotative and Verificative In Archi
Marina Chumakina
13. To Agree Or Not To Agree? - A Typology of Sporadic Agreement
Sebastian Fedden
14. Where Are Gender Values and How Do I Get To Them?
Oliver Bond
15. Focus as A Morphosyntactic and Morphosemantic Feature
Irina Nikolaeva
16. When Agreement and Binding Go Their Separate Ways: Generic Second Person Pronoun In Russian
Maria Polinsky
17. Rara and Theory Testing In Typology: The Natural Evolution of Non-Canonical Agreement
Erich Round
