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Morphological Complexity by Matthew Baerman 9781107543614
Booksplease Price: £24.15Inflectional 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... -
Morphological Complexity by Matthew Baerman 9781107120648
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £98.54Inflectional 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Inflection by Matthew Baerman 9780198808619
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.56This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook... -
Deponency and Morphological Mismatches by Matthew Baerman 9780197264102
Booksplease Price: £77.60Deponency is a mismatch between form and function in language that was first described for Latin, where there is a group of verbs (the deponents) which are morphologically passive but syntactically... -
Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity by Matthew Baerman 9780198723769
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £102.34This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have... -
The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism by Matthew Baerman 9780521821810
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £104.20Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a... -
The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism by Matthew Baerman 9780521102759
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a... -
Morphological Perspectives: Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett by Matthew Baerman
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.83Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in... -
Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms and What They Tell Us by Matthew Baerman 9780197264607
Booksplease Price: £52.30An important design feature of language is the use of productive patterns in inflection. In English, we have pairs such as 'enjoy' ~ 'enjoyed', 'agree' ~ 'agreed', and many others. On the basis of... -
Morphological Perspectives: Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett by Matthew Baerman 9781474446013
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.53In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting... -
Canonical Morphology and Syntax by Dunstan Brown 9780199604326
RRP: £152.50Booksplease Price: £109.33This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular... -
Archi: Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective by Greville G. Corbett
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £95.00This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian language. Even... -
Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics by Anna Kibort 9780199577743
Booksplease Price: £105.27This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. Features are fundamental... -
Non-Canonical Gender Systems by Sebastian Fedden 9780198795438
Booksplease Price: £112.91This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although...