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Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English /

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and ind...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Even-Simkin, Elena
Otros Autores: Tobin, Y.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Colección:Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 66.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one. Introduction
  • part two. Background
  • part three. The non-irregularity hypotheses
  • part four. Phonological non-irregularity hypothesis
  • part five. Semantic non-irregularity : the common semantic denominator (CSD) hypothesis
  • part six. Further evidence for both hypotheses
  • part seven. Discussion and conclusions.