Universals in comparative morphology : suppletion, superlatives, and the structure of words

• Main Author: Bobaljik, Jonathan David, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
• Series: Current studies in linguistics series.
• Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology.; Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.; Grammar, Comparative and general > Word formation.; Linguistics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780262305525; 9781283637756; 9780262017596
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xiii, 313 stran) : ilustrace

An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonolog...