1st Edition
Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals)
By Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Copyright 1987
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
290 Pages
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First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, it shows that this was not just a phenomenon left over from obsolete phonological processes but a subject deserving of more respect. The book proposes constraints in three areas: (1) the organization of inflection class systems; (2) inflectional... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Satus of Inflexion Paradigms 3. The Paradigm Economy Principle 4. Homonymy within Paradigms 5. Syntagmatic Constraints on Allomorphy 6. Two Questions Concerning Stem Allomorphy 7. A Case Study: Paradigm Economy in German Nouns 8. Next Steps; Bibliography; Indexes
Biography
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
