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Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude

  • Frans Plank
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Paradigms
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© 2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude 1
  3. Form and function in identifying cases 41
  4. Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages 57
  5. Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms 75
  6. Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar 91
  7. Systematic versus accidental phonological identity 113
  8. Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning 133
  9. Rasmus Rask’s dilemma 161
  10. The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies 197
  11. Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer 213
  12. Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations 255
  13. The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana 275
  14. Author Index 307
  15. Subject Index 311
  16. Language Index 315
  17. Backmatter 318
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110889109.1

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Of abundance and scantiness in inflection: A typological prelude 1
  3. Form and function in identifying cases 41
  4. Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of adpositions with cases in flective languages 57
  5. Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms 75
  6. Geometric representation of paradigms in a modular theory of grammar 91
  7. Systematic versus accidental phonological identity 113
  8. Syncretism and the paradigmatic patterning of grammatical meaning 133
  9. Rasmus Rask’s dilemma 161
  10. The assessment of paradigm stability: Some Indo-European case studies 197
  11. Inflection classes: Two questions with one answer 213
  12. Organising principles for nominal paradigms in Daghestanian languages: Comparative and typological observations 255
  13. The geometry of verb paradigms in Teso-Turkana 275
  14. Author Index 307
  15. Subject Index 311
  16. Language Index 315
  17. Backmatter 318
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