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Paradigms : The Economy of Inflection / ed. by Frans Plank.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 9Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (317 p.) : Num. figs. and tablContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110127614
  • 9783110889109
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415
LOC classification:
  • P251 .P37 1991
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude -- Form and function in identifying cases -- Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages -- Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms -- Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar -- Systematic versus accidental phonological identity -- Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning -- Rasmus Rask’s dilemma -- The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies -- Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer -- Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations -- The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index -- Backmatter
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Frontmatter -- Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude -- Form and function in identifying cases -- Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages -- Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms -- Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar -- Systematic versus accidental phonological identity -- Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning -- Rasmus Rask’s dilemma -- The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies -- Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer -- Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations -- The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index -- Backmatter

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