EbookBell.com

Most ebook files are in PDF format, so you can easily read them using various software such as Foxit Reader or directly on the Google Chrome browser.
Some ebook files are released by publishers in other formats such as .awz, .mobi, .epub, .fb2, etc. You may need to install specific software to read these formats on mobile/PC, such as Calibre.

Please read the tutorial at this link: https://ebookbell.com/faq

We offer FREE conversion to the popular formats you request; however, this may take some time. Therefore, right after payment, please email us, and we will try to provide the service as quickly as possible.

For some exceptional file formats or broken links (if any), please refrain from opening any disputes. Instead, email us first, and we will try to assist within a maximum of 6 hours.

EbookBell Team

Morphological Complexity Baerman Matthew Brown Dunstan Corbett

Name: Morphological Complexity Baerman Matthew Brown Dunstan Corbett
SKU: BELL-10539858
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (40 reviews)

SKU: BELL-10539858

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

5.0

40 reviews

Morphological Complexity Baerman Matthew Brown Dunstan Corbett instant download after payment.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 17.09 MB

Pages: 188

Author: Baerman, Matthew; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.

ISBN: 9781107120648, 1107120640

Language: English

Year: 2017

Product desciption

Morphological Complexity Baerman Matthew Brown Dunstan Corbett by Baerman, Matthew; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G. 9781107120648, 1107120640 instant download after payment.

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.