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Title The boundaries of pure morphology : diachronic and synchronic perspectives / edited by Silvio Cruschina, Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Series Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 4
Oxford linguistics
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 4.
Oxford linguistics.
Contents Cover; Contents; Series preface; List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Stem alternations in Swiss Rumantsch; 3 'Semi-autonomous' morphology? A problem in the history of the Italian (and Romanian) verb; 4 The Italian FINIRE-type verbs: a case of morphomic attraction; 5 The fate of the -ID(I)- morpheme in the Central Dolomitic Ladin varieties of northern Italy: variable conditioning of a morphological mechanism; 6 Future and conditional in Occitan: a non-canonical morphome; 7 Compositionality and change in conditionals and counterfactuals in Romance
8 Morphomes in Sardinian verb inflection9 The roots of language; 10 Morphomic stems in the Northern Talyshi verb: diachrony and synchrony; 11 Overabundance in diachrony: a case study; 12 The morphome and morphosyntactic/semantic features; 13 The morphome as a gradient phenomenon: evidence from Romance; 14 Beyond the stem and inflectional morphology: an irregular pattern at the level of periphrasis; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary In a series of pioneering explorations of the diachrony of morphomes, this book throws new light on the nature of the morphome and the boundary - seen from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives - between what is and is not genuinely autonomous in morphology. Its findings will be of central interest to morphologists of all theoretical stripes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Historical linguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology
Historical linguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Cruschina, Silvio, editor.
Maiden, Martin, 1957- editor.
Smith, John Charles, 1950- editor.
ISBN 9780191668081
0191668087
9780191758089
0191758086
1299803024
9781299803022