Analogy, Levelling, Markedness
Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology
Format:Hardback
Publisher:De Gruyter
Published:25th Feb '03
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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