The complexities of morphology / edited by Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardani.
| Other author | Arkadʹev, P. M. |
| Other author | Gardani, Francesco, 1975- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Description | xx, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | [Oxford linguistics] Oxford linguistics. ^A520562 |
| Contents | Introduction : complexities in morphology / Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardini -- Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems : a study of Russian nouns / Jeff Parker and Andrea D. Sims -- Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha / John Mansfield and Rachel Nordlinger -- Overabundance resulting from language contact : complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol / Felicity Meakins and Sasha Wilmoth -- Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles / Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, and Delphine Tribout -- Simplification and complexificaiton in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax / Michele Loporcaro -- Canonical complexity / Johanna Nichols -- The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology / Francesca Di Garbo -- Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia / Adam J. R. Tallman and Patience Epps -- Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition / John H. McWhorter -- Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning / Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Arturs Semenuks -- Where is morphological complexity? / Marianne Mithun -- Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach / Östen Dahl. |
| Summary | This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured. The book opens with a detailed introduction from the editors that critically assesses the foundational assumptions that inform contemporary approaches to morphological complexity. In the chapters that follow, the volume's expert contributors approach the topic from typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives; the concluding chapter offers an overview of these various approaches, with a focus on the minimum description length principle. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from both well-known languages such as Russian and lesser-studied languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-381) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020932944 |
| ISBN | 9780198861287 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0198861281 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |