Inflectional Paradigms : Content and Form at the Syntax-Morphology Interface - Gregory Stump

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Inflectional Paradigms

Content and Form at the Syntax-Morphology Interface

By: Gregory Stump

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Paperback | 7 January 2016

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Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language''s morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian, Kashmiri, Latin, Nepali, Noon, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Turkish, Twi and others), Stump examines a variety of mismatches between words'' content and form, including morphomic patterns, defectiveness, overabundance, syncretism, suppletion, deponency and polyfunctionality. He demonstrates that such mismatches motivate a new grammatical architecture in which two kinds of paradigms are distinguished: content paradigms, which determine word forms'' syntactic distribution and semantic interpretation, and form paradigms, which determine their inflectional realization. In this framework, the often nontrivial linkage between a lexeme''s content paradigm and its stems'' form paradigm is the nexus at which incongruities of content and form are resolved. Stump presents clear and precise analyses of a range of morphological phenomena in support of this theoretical innovation.

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'Inflectional paradigms is an excellent book combining clarity of exposition, rich empirical coverage and theoretical sophistication. ... I would like to recommend Stump's new book to all interested in morphological typology and theories of syntax-morphology interface, including not only linguists of a more theoretical stance, but typologists and descriptive linguists as well.' Peter M. Arkadiev, The Linguist List

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