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Analogy, levelling, markedness : principles of change in phonology and morphology /

Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. A traditional umbrella category of change in systems is that of ana...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lahiri, Aditi, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
Edición:Second and revised edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the paperback edition
  • Introduction
  • Analogy as optimization: â€?exceptionsâ€? to Sieversâ€? Law in Gothic
  • Analogical levelling of vowel length in West Germanic
  • Hierarchical restructuring in the creation of verbal morphology in Bengali and Germanic: Evidence from phonology
  • Constraints on schwa apocope in Middle High German
  • Morphological re-activation and phonological alternations: Evidence for voiceless restructuring in German
  • Inflectional system and markedness
  • On the origin and development of the Central Franconian tone contrast
  • The origin of Danish stÃ?dProsodic variation in â€?Lutgartâ€?
  • The revenge of the uneven trochee: Latin main stress, metrical constituency, stress-related phenomena and OT
  • On the (non- )existence of High Vowel Deletion
  • Index of subjects
  • Index of names
  • Index of languages