Morphological Variation
Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Publisher: Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9789027262561
Subjects: German language; Germanic languages; Grammar, comparative and general, morphology
Description: Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering a wide range of phenomena (e.g. negation structures, form function-mismatches in the verbal and nominal domain, loss of morphosyntactic feature values, etc.), the contributions to this volume combine in-depth empirical studies with the explanatory potential of modern theories of grammar as well as approaches for capturing and modelling microtypological diversity.