Copies Versus Cognates in Bound Morphology:

Name: Copies Versus Cognates in Bound Morphology:
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ISBN: 9789004224070

ISBN-10: 9004224076

ISBN-13: 9789004224070

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lars Johanson, Martine Robbeets

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This work puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced perspective. Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets provide nothing less than the foundations for a new perspective on diachronic linguistics between geneaological and areal linguistics.

Book details

List price: $189.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Preface


About the Contributors



Theoretical and Typological Issues



Bound morphology in common: copy or cognate?




Non-borrowed non-cognate parallels in bound morphology: Aspects of the phenomenon of shared drift with Eurasian examples




Selection for m : T pronominals in Eurasia




Plural across inflection and derivation, fusion and agglutination




Bound morphology in English (and beyond): copy or cognate?




Copiability of (bound) morphology




A variationist solution to apparent copying across related languages




Case Studies: America



'Invisible' loans: How to borrow a bound form




Constraints on morphological borrowing: Evidence from Latin America




Morphological borrowing in Sierra Popoluca




Cognates versus copies in North America: New light on the old discussion on diffusion versus inheritance



Eurasia



On the degree of copiability of derivational and inflectional morphology: Evidence from Basque




Between copy and cognate: the origin of absolutes in Old and Middle English




Copying and cognates in the Balkan Sprachbund




Transfer of morphemes and grammatical structure in Ancient




The historical background of the transfer of a Kurdish bound morpheme to Neo-Aramaic




On the sustainability of inflectional morphology




Foreign and indigenous properties in the vocabulary of Eynu, a secret language spoken in the south of Taklamakan




Deriving insights about Tungusic classification from derivational morphology




The likelihood of morphological borrowing: The case of Korean and Japanese




Shared verb morphology in the Transeurasian languages: copy or cognate?



Language Index


Subject Index