Abstract:Languages with rich inflectional morphology frequently exhibit inflection-class systems, in which the same morphosyntactic property sets are realized differently in the inflection of stems belonging t...Languages with rich inflectional morphology frequently exhibit inflection-class systems, in which the same morphosyntactic property sets are realized differently in the inflection of stems belonging to the same syntactic category but to distinct inflection classes. Drawing on the notion of canonical inflection classes proposed by Corbett 2009 (Section 6.1), I highlight three facts about inflection classes that have important implications for an adequate theory of inflection: These are the fact that inflection classes may be global or segregated (Section 6.2), the fact that inflection classes are classes of stems rather than classes of lexemes (Section 6.3), and the fact that inflection classes are often most easily distinguished by their patterns of stem formation and stem alternation (Section 6.4).Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-12-18
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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