Morphological complexity / (Record no. 13862)
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| fixed length control field | 02034nam a2200265Ii 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781316343074 (ebook) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107543614 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107543614 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | P241. B34 2023, 415/.9 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Baerman, Matthew, |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Morphological complexity / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett |
| Remainder of title | Linguistics |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge : |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication or production | 2017 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xix, 188p. |
| Other physical details | ill:, index, Tables |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cambridge studies in linguistics |
| GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017) |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the morphological structures operate at cross purposes to the general systems of meaning and function that govern a language, yielding inflection classes and arbitrarily configured paradigms. This is what we call morphological complexity. Manipulating the forms of words requires learning a whole new system of structures and relationships. This book confronts the typological challenge of characterising the wildly diverse sorts of morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world, offering both a unified descriptive framework and quantitative measures that can be applied to such heterogeneous systems |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Grammar, Comparative and general |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Grammar, Comparative and general |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Complexity (Linguistics) |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brown, Dunstan, |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Corbett, Greville G., |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781316343074/type/BOOK |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://go.ohiolink.edu/goto?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781316343074/type/BOOK |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 11/04/2024 | P241 .B34 2023 | 0195161 | Books |
| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 11/04/2024 | P241 .B34 2023 | 0195162 | Books |