Copies versus cognates in bound morphology /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. |
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| Description: | xv, 455 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in language, cognition, and culture, 1897-5412 ; v. 2 Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; 2. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8938121 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- About the Contributors
- Part 1. Theoretical and Typological Issues
- 1. Bound morphology in common: copy or cognate?
- 2. Non-borrowed non-cognate parallels in bound morphology: Aspects of the phenomenon of shared drift with Eurasian examples
- 3. Selection for m : T pronominals in Eurasia
- 4. Plural across inflection and derivation, fusion and agglutination
- 5. Bound morphology in English (and beyond): copy or cognate?
- 6. Copiability of (bound) morphology
- 7. A variationist solution to apparent copying across related languages
- Part 2. Case Studies: America
- 8. 'Invisible' loans: How to borrow a bound form
- 9. Constraints on morphological borrowing: Evidence from Latin America
- 10. Morphological borrowing in Sierra Popoluca
- 11. Cognates versus copies in North America: New light on the old discussion on diffusion versus inheritance
- Eurasia
- 12. On the degree of copiability of derivational and inflectional morphology: Evidence from Basque
- 13. Between copy and cognate: the origin of absolutes in Old and Middle English
- 14. Copying and cognates in the Balkan Sprachbund
- 15. Transfer of morphemes and grammatical structure in Ancient
- 16. The historical background of the transfer of a Kurdish bound morpheme to Neo-Aramaic
- 17. On the sustainability of inflectional morphology
- 18. Foreign and indigenous properties in the vocabulary of Eynu, a secret language spoken in the south of Taklamakan
- 19. Deriving insights about Tungusic classification from derivational morphology
- 20. The likelihood of morphological borrowing: The case of Korean and Japanese
- 21. Shared verb morphology in the Transeurasian languages: copy or cognate?
- Language Index
- Subject Index
