Leitmotifs in natural morphology /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987. |
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| Description: | viii, 168 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in language companion series v. 10 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/679638 |
Table of Contents:
- -1. Prelim pages
- 1. Preface
- 2. A. Introduction
- 3. I. Introduction
- 4. 1. What is naturalness?
- 5. 2. Inflection and word formation
- 6. 3. Towards a theory of morphological naturalness
- 7. 4. The structure of a theory of naturalness
- 8. 5. Evidence for naturalness
- 9. 6. The semiotic framework of natural morphology
- 10. 7. Divergences and convergences among proponents of natural approaches to morphology
- 11. Notes
- 12. B. Naturalness in Inflection
- 13. I. System-independent morphological naturalness
- 14. 0. Introduction
- 15. 1. Universal grammar and markedness
- 16. 2. Preference theories
- 17. 3. Some other prerequisites of theoretical morphology
- 18. 4. Principles of morphological markedness theory
- 19. 5. What is a 'theory'?
- 20. 6. Appendix on attractors in catastrophe theory
- 21. Notes
- 22. II. System-dependent morphological naturalness in inflection
- 23. 0. Naturalness, morphology and language system
- 24. 1. System-dependent naturalness I
- 25. 2. System-dependent naturalness II
- 26. 3. System-congruity and class-stability
- 27. 4. Naturalness principles of inflectional morphology
- 28. Notes
- 29. C. Naturalness in Word Formation
- 30. I. Word formation as part of natural morphology
- 31. 1. Introduction
- 32. 2. Iconicity in word formation
- 33. 3. Indexicality in word formation
- 34. 4. The scale of (bi)uniqueness in word formation
- 35. 5. Signans shapes adequate for motivation in word formation
- 36. 6. Typological adequacy of word formation rules
- 37. 7. System adequacy (congruity) of word formation rules
- 38. 8. Inflection vs. derivation again
- 39. Notes
- 40. II. Productivity and diachronic change in morphology
- 41. 0. Introduction
- 42. 1. Interpretations of productivity
- 43. 2. Vedic root-nouns and Ancient Greek diminutives
- 44. 3. Semantic predictability (transparency)
- 45. 4. Transition from word formation into inflection
- 46. 5. Hierarchy of productivity in types of word formation
- 47. 6. Conclusion on productivity in corpus languages
- 48. 7. From derivational to inflectional morphology
- 49. 8. Reasons for loss of productivity
- 50. 9. Indo-European cognates
- 51. Notes
- 52. Abbreviations
- 53. General bibliography
- 54. Subject index