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Analogy, Levelling, Markedness

Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology

Aditi Lahiri editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:25th Feb '03

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Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. A traditional umbrella category of change in systems is that of analogy. Somewhat less sanctioned, markedness is a basic relation shaping the structure of systems, in phonology as well as morphology.

"This welcome volume illustrates once more how important historical data can be in linguistic argumentation and how exciting work on the diachronic innovation of linguistic phenomena can be."Patrick Honeybonein: Linguistics 39/2003

ISBN: 9783110175523

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 744g

395 pages

2nd rev. ed., Reprint 2012