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Author Nesset, Tore

Title Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model : Cognitive Linguistics and the Morphology-Phonology Interface
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Series Cognitive Linguistics Research, v. 40
Cognitive Linguistics Research, v. 40
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. To cut a long story short -- Chapter 2. Cognitive grammar and the cognitive linguistics family -- Chapter 3. A cognitive approach to phonology -- Chapter 4. A cognitive approach to morphology -- Chapter 5. Alternations in Cognitive Grammar: The truncation alternation and the one-stem/two-stem controversy -- Chapter 6. Neutralization and phonology-morphology interaction: Exceptional infinitive -- Chapter 7. Abstractness and alternatives to rule ordering and underlying representations: Exceptional past tense -- Chapter 8. Opacity and product-oriented generalizations: Exceptional imperative -- Chapter 9. Palatalization and lenition: The softening alternation -- Chapter 10. Opacity and non-modularity: Conditioning the softening alternation -- Chapter 11. The meaning of alternations: The truncation-softening conspiracy -- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Looking back ... and ahead -- Backmatter
Summary This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics? Do morphophonological alternations have a meaning? These questions are explored via a comprehensive analysis of stem alternations in Russian verbs. The analysis is couched in R.W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar framework, and the book offers comparisons to other varieties of cognitive linguistics, such as Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration. The proposed analysis is furthermore compa
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
Morphophonemics.
Cognitive grammar.
Russian language -- Verb
Cognitive grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology
Morphophonemics
Russian language -- Verb
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110208368
3110208369
1283428660
9781283428668