Eintrag

Titel

On Inflection

Personen

Patrick O. Steinkrüger, Manfred Krifka

Jahr

2009

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

de Gruyter

Ort

New York

Reihe

Trends in linguistics

Band

184

Schlagwörter

Morphologie
Phonologie

Beiträge

• Gaeta: Inflectional morphology and productivity: Considering qualitative and quantitative approaches
• Dressler: Reciprocal complementary paradigm structure conditions
• Harnisch: Genericity as a principle of paradigm economy. The case of German wer 'who'
• Iverson: Naturalness and the life cycle of language change
• Spencer: Realization-based morphosyntax: The German genitive
• Krifka: Case syncretism in German feminines: Typological, functional and structural aspects
• Zubin: Gender control - lexical or conceptual?

Abstract

The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "Gustav" Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology. All contributors to the volume deal with Wurzel's work and thinking, who in his theoretical writings focused on the concepts of naturalness, markedness and complexity in human language. The authors discuss diachronic and typological aspects of morphology, i.e. the nature of paradigms, the rise and fall of inflectional morphology, and the development and systems of gender marking, also in regard to the interface with phonology and syntax.

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