Explorations in Nominal InflectionGereon Müller, Lutz Gunkel, Gisela Zifonun Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages. The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components. Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class, case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement, the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features, and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality, specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various theoretical frameworks. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Inflection Class Gender and DP Internal Structure | 21 |
Inflection Classes and Economy | 50 |
Left of Number Animacy and Plurality in German Nouns | 97 |
Feature Sharing in DPs | 121 |
A Topological Schema for Noun Phrases in German | 161 |
Syncretism in Russian Noun Inflection | 189 |
The Tension between Economy and Faithfulness | 229 |
Feature Checking Case and Agreement in German DPs | 269 |
Feminine vs NonFeminine Noun Phrases in German | 300 |
Categories and Paradigms On Underspecification in Russian Declension | 321 |
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Explorations in Nominal Inflection Gereon M Ller,Lutz Gunkel,Gisela Zifonun No preview available - 2004 |