The Complexities of Morphology
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 September 2020
- ISBN 9780198861287
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 237x161x27 mm
- Weight 734 g
- Language English 152
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Short description:
This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, offering typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from a wide range of languages, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Complexities in morphology
Part I: The language-specific perspective
Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems: A study of Russian nouns
Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha
Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol
Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles
Simplification and complexification in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax
Part II: The crosslinguistic perspective
Canonical complexity
The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology
Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia
Part III: The acquisitional perspective
Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition
Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning
Where is morphological complexity?
Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach
