Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 March 2015
- ISBN 9780198723769
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 240x162x19 mm
- Weight 506 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Chapters highlight novel perspectives on conceptualizing morphological complexity, and offer concrete means for measuring, quantifying and analysing it.
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This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have of being complex, perhaps none is as daunting as what can be achieved by inflectional morphology: this volume examines languages such as Archi, which has a 1,000,000-form verb paradigm, and Chinantec, which has over 100 inflection classes. Alongside this complexity, inflection is notable for its variety across languages: one can take two unrelated languages and discover that they share similar syntax or phonology, but one would be hard pressed to find two unrelated languages with the same inflectional systems.
In this volume, senior scholars and junior researchers highlight novel perspectives on conceptualizing morphological complexity, and offer concrete means for measuring, quantifying and analysing it. Examples are drawn from a wide range of languages, including those of North America, New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, alongside a number of European languages. The book will be a valuable resource for all those studying complexity phenomena in morphology, and for theoretical linguists more generally, from graduate level upwards.
Table of Contents:
Part I What is Morphological Complexity?
Understanding and measuring morphological complexity: An introduction
Dimensions of morphological complexity
Part II Understanding Complexity
Rhizomorphomes, meromorphomes, and metamorphomes
Morphological opacity: Rules of referral in Kanum verbs
Oneida pronominal complexity: An upper-bound on morphological complexity?
Gender-number marking in Archi: Small is complex
Part III Measuring Complexity
Contrasting modes of representation for inflectional systems: Some implications for computing morphological complexity
Computational complexity of abstractive morpholog
Patterns of syncretism and paradigm complexity: The case of Old and Middle Indic declen
Learning and the complexity of Ø-marking
