Defective paradigms: missing forms and what they tell us

This is the first volume devoted to the theory and typology of gaps in inflectional paradigms. Such gaps have been recognised since the days of Classical grammarians, but they remain poorly understood. This volume addresses these issues from historical, statistical and theoretical approaches, and by using studies from a range of languages. INDICE: Matthew Baerman & Greville G. Corbett: Introduction: Defectiveness: typology and diachrony; Stephen R. Anderson: Failing one's obligations: defectiveness in Rumantsch reflexes of DEBERE; Gilles Boyé & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr: Defectiveness as stem suppletion in French and Spanish verbs; Andra Kalnaca & Ilze Lokmane: Defective paradigms of reflexive nouns and participles in Latvian; John Löwenadler: Relative acceptability of missing adjective forms in Swedish; Agnes Lukács, Péter Rebrus & Miklós Törkenczy: Defective verbal paradigms in Hungarian: description and experimental study; Martin Maiden & PaulO'Neill: On morphomic defectiveness: evidence from the Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula; Marianne Mithun: The search for regularity in irregularity: defectiveness and its implications for our knowledge of words; Milan Rezac: Ineffability through modularity: gaps in the French clitic cluster; Gregory Stump: Interactions between defectiveness and syncretism

• ISBN: 978-0-19-726460-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 230
• Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés