Details

Subject(s)

• Grammar, Comparative and general—Inflection [Browse]

Editor

• Baerman, Matthew [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]
• Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics

Summary note

This handbook provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of work on inflection - the expression of grammatical information through changes in word forms. The volume's 24 chapters are written by experts in the field from a variety of theoretical backgrounds, with examples drawn from a wide range of languages.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [597]-667) and indexes.

Source of description

• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 25, 2016).
• Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction / Matthew Baerman
• Diachrony / Claire Bowern
• Contact-induced change / Maaarten Kossman
• Modelling inflectional structure / Dunstan Brown
• Machine translation / Ondérej Bojar
• Machine learning of inflection / Katya Pertsova
• Inflectional morphology in language acquisition / Sabine Stoll
• Disorders / Matthew Walenski
• Verbal inflection in Iha: A multiplicity of alignments / Mark Donohue
• Inflection in Pulaar / Fiona Mc Laughlin
• Lithuanian inflection / Axel Holvoet
• The morpheme: Its nature and use / Stephen R. Anderson
• Chamorro inflection / Thomas Stolz
• Inflection in Murrinh-Patha / Rachel Nordlinger
• Aymara inflection / Matt Coler
• Inflection in Nen / Nicholas Evans
• Stem-internal and affixal morphology in Shilluk / Bert Remijsen, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudâe, Leoma G. Gilley
• Features in inflection / Greville G. Corbett
• Inflectional Exponence / Jochen Trommer, Eva Zimmermann
• Inflectional paradigms / James P. Blevins
• Inflection Classes / Gregory Stump
• Paradigmatic deviations / Matthew Baerman
• Phonology / Gunnar âOlafur Hansson
• Periphrasis and inflection / Andrew Spencer, Gergana Popova.

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Other title(s)

Inflection

ISBN

• 0-19-166494-4
• 0-19-175028-X

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