310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
First published in 1991. The existence of morphonology had been the subject of intense debate in twentieth-century linguistic theory. Attempts to identify putatively morphonological phenomena had often foundered on the widespread assumption of a rigid dichotomy between synchronic morphological structures and the phonetic processes which historically shared them. With the difficulties of... Read more
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction 2. Phonetic and Morphological Conditioning 3. Morphology and Morphologization 4. Morphological Conditioning of Phonetic Processes? 5. The Interactive View of Morphonology 6. Origins and Nature of Italian Metaphony 7. Metaphony in the Inflectional Paradigms 8. The Metaphonic Evidence 9. Phonetic Vulnerability in Diffuse Paradigms 10. Characteristics of Morphonology; Appendices; Maps; Bibliographical References; Index
Biography
Martin Maiden is Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
