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Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology

Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology

Smith, John Charles
Goldbach, Maria
Maiden, Martin

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Linguistics

Miscellaneous LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 0199589984
ISBN13: 9780199589982
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 15 2011
Pages: 502
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed arguments for the autonomy of morphology, ie morphology has phenomena and mechanisms of its own that are not reducible to syntax or phonology. But which principles and rules govern this independent component and which phenomena can be described or explicated by the mechanisms of the morphemic level? In shedding light on these questions, this volume constitutes a major contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to our understanding of the nature and importance of morphomic structure in language change in general.

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