Inflectional Morphology
Subtitle: A Theory of Paradigm Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521024228
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Grammar, Comparative and general--Inflection; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general; Inflection
First sentence: In any language exhibiting inflection, each inflected word in a sentence carries a set of morphosyntactic properties; in English, for instance, the verb form am in the sentence I am sure carries the properties 'first-person singular (1sg) subject agreement', 'present tense', and 'indicative mood'.