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Universals in Comparative Morphology : Suppletion, Superlatives, and the Structure of Words /
An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonolog...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Distributed Morphology; 1.3 Constructing the Database; 1.4 Comparative Typology; 2 Comparative Suppletion; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 *ABA: Explaining a Gap; 2.3 Universal Grammar versus the European Sprachbund; 2.4 Summary; 3 The Containment Hypothesis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Transparent Containment; 3.3 Comparison and the Synthetic/Analytic Divide; 3.4 The Synthetic Superlative Generalization; 3.5 Containment and Semantic Considerations; 3.6 Chapter Summary; 4 The Comparative-Superlative Generalization: The Data.
- 4.1 Adjectives4.2 Adverbs; 4.3 Quantifiers; 4.4 Chapter Summary; 5 Theoretical Refinements; 5.1 Introduction: Taking Stock; 5.2 Conditions on Suppletion: Exponence versus Readjustment; 5.3 Adjacency, ABC, *AAB; 5.4 AAB Ablaut; 5.5 Merger, Rule Ordering, Diacritics, and Acquisition; 6 Getting Better: Comparison and Deadjectival Verbs; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Preliminary Remarks; 6.3 Deadjectival Degree Achievements: Doubting Dowty; 6.4 To Good, to Badden, and to Many; 6.5 Summary: What's the Difference?; 7 Complexity, Bundling, and Lesslessness; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Lesslessness.
- 7.3 Conservative Decomposition: Adjacency and Bundling7.4 Concluding Remarks; Appendixes; A The Broad Sample; B The Focused Survey; C Principal Sources; References; Name Index; Subject Index; Language Index; Current Studies in Linguistics.