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020			_a9781107543614
020			_a9781107543614
082	0	0	_aP241. B34 2023, 415/.9
100	1		_aBaerman, Matthew,
245	1	0	_aMorphological complexity / _cMatthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett _bLinguistics
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2017
300			_axix, 188p. _bill:, index, Tables
490	1		_aCambridge studies in linguistics
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017)
520			_aInflectional 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
650		0	_aGrammar, Comparative and general
650		0	_aGrammar, Comparative and general
650		0	_aComplexity (Linguistics)
700	1		_aBrown, Dunstan,
700	1		_aCorbett, Greville G.,
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