Features /

"Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual ...), Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Corbett, Greville G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Language and languages > Grammar.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Langage et langues > Grammaire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language and languages > Grammar
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Features
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Why features?
  • 1.1 Why do we use features?
  • 1.1.1 Generalizations in syntax
  • 1.1.2 Generalizations in morphology
  • 1.2 Orthogonal features (in syntax and in morphology)
  • 1.3 Practical issues
  • 1.4 The tradition
  • 1.5 The canonical perspective
  • 1.6 Outline of the book
  • 2 Formal perspectives: The internal structure of features
  • 2.1 Structuring within a feature
  • 2.1.1 Unary features
  • 2.1.2 Binary and multivalued features
  • 2.1.3 Decomposing feature values.
  • 2.1.4 Facultative use and superclassing
  • 2.1.5 Inequalities in feature values
  • 2.1.6 Markedness and defaults
  • 2.1.7 The importance of clarity
  • 2.1.8 Underspecification
  • 2.2 Atomic values versus complex values
  • 2.3 Orthogonal features and syncretism
  • 2.4 Typed feature structures
  • 2.5 Unification
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • 3 Features for different components
  • 3.1 Internal features
  • 3.2 Interface features
  • 3.3 Morphosyntactic (versus morphosemantic) features
  • 3.4 Morphological features
  • 3.4.1 Inflectional class features: affixal
  • 3.4.2 Inflectional class features: prosodic.
  • 3.4.3 Stem indexing features
  • 3.4.4 Syncretic index features
  • 3.4.5 Distinguishing morphological features
  • 3.4.6 Summary of distinctions
  • 3.4.7 The need for morphological features
  • 3.4.8 Morphology-free syntax: illustrative case study
  • 3.5 Morphophonological features
  • 3.6 Inherent and contextual features
  • 3.7 Part of speech (lexical category) as a feature
  • 3.7.1 Gradience in parts of speech
  • 3.7.2 Problems in determining the type of feature
  • 3.8 Conclusion
  • 4 Justifying particular features and their values
  • 4.1 The analysis problem
  • 4.1.1 Determining features.
  • 4.1.2 Determining values
  • 4.1.3 Determining gender values
  • 4.1.4 Towards an inventory of features and names
  • 4.2 Features and conditions
  • 4.3 Hierarchies
  • 4.3.1 The basic logic of hierarchies
  • 4.3.2 Monotonic increase
  • 4.4 The problem of gradience
  • 4.4.1 The extent of the problem
  • 4.4.2 Additional feature values: an inadequate proposal
  • 4.4.3 Conditions: their role in analysing gradience
  • 4.4.4 Conclusion on gradience
  • 4.5 Introducing canonicity
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5 Typology
  • 5.1 The correspondence problem
  • 5.1.1 The correspondence problem: cross-linguistic.
  • 5.1.2 The correspondence problem: intra-linguistic
  • 5.2 GENDER
  • 5.3 NUMBER
  • 5.4 PERSON
  • 5.5 CASE
  • 5.6 Less clear morphosyntactic features: DEFINITENESS
  • 5.7 Less clear morphosyntactic features: RESPECT
  • 5.7.1 Respect as a feature or as a condition
  • 5.7.2 When respect is a condition
  • 5.7.3 Disputed cases
  • 5.7.4 Languages with a morphosyntactic feature RESPECT
  • 5.7.5 Why is the morphosyntactic feature RESPECT so rare?
  • 5.8 A comparison: the DIMINUTIVE
  • 5.8.1 Different types of DIMINUTIVE
  • 5.8.2 The comparison with RESPECT
  • 5.8.3 DIMINUTIVE and RESPECT: Conclusion.

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