nam a22 c 4500 slcs.10/162009428 nljbp 250625085623.1 cr ||||||||||| 250330s1987 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 0087021791 9789027283139 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P241 415 19 CF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Dressler, Wolfgang U. author Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology Wolfgang U. Dressler, Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl and Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987 ©1987 1 online resource (ix, 168 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Language Companion Series 0165-7763 10 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface -- I. Introduction -- 1. What is naturalness? -- 2. Inflection and word formation -- 3. Towards a theory of morphological naturalness -- 4. The structure of a theory of naturalness -- 5. Evidence for naturalness -- 6. The semiotic framework of natural morphology -- 7. Divergences and convergences among proponents of natural approaches to morphology -- Notes -- I. System-independent morphological naturalness / Willi Mayerthaler -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Universal grammar and markedness -- 2. Preference theories -- 3. Some other prerequisites of theoretical morphology -- 4. Principles of morphological markedness theory -- 5. What is a ‘theory’? -- 6. Appendix on attractors in catastrophe theory -- Notes -- II. System-dependent morphological naturalness in inflection / Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel -- 0. Naturalness, morphology and language system -- 1. System-dependent naturalness I -- 2. System-dependent naturalness II -- 3. System-congruity and class-stability -- 4. Naturalness principles of inflectional morphology -- Notes -- I. Word formation as part of natural morphology / Wolfgang U. Dressler -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Iconicity in word formation -- 3. Indexicality in word formation -- 4. The scale of (bi)uniqueness in word formation -- 5. Signans shapes adequate for motivation in word formation -- 6. Typological adequacy of word formation rules -- 7. System adequacy (congruity) of word formation rules -- 8. Inflection vs. derivation again -- Notes -- II. Productivity and diachronic change in morphology / Oswald Panagl -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Interpretations of productivity -- 2. Vedic root-nouns and Ancient Greek diminutives -- 3. Semantic predictability (transparency) -- 4. Transition from word formation into inflection -- 5. Hierarchy of productivity in types of word formation -- 6. Conclusion on productivity in corpus languages -- 7. From derivational to inflectional morphology -- 8. Reasons for loss of productivity -- 9. Indo-European cognates -- Notes Natural Morphology is the term the four authors of this monograph agreed on to cover the leitmotifs of their common and individual approaches in questions of theoretical morphology. The introduction summarizes the basic concepts and strategies of Natural Morphology, to be followed by Mayerthaler who deals with universal properties of inflectional morphology, and Wurzel with typological ones which depend on language specific properties of inflectional systems, and Dressler with universal and typological properties of word formation. The final chapter by Panagl is an indepth study of diachronic evidence for productivity in word formation and for the overlap of word formation with inflectional morphology. Provided by publisher. Morphology Theoretical linguistics Dressler, Wolfgang U. author Mayerthaler, Willi author Panagl, Oswald author Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987 9789027230096 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.10 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027283139