Langacker's usage-based model provides cognitive linguists with a useful tool for the study of allomorphy...
Keywords: usage-based model, allomorphy, Russian, conjugation
02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterSpoken languages employ various strategies to mark the plural of nouns, the most important ones being affixation, reduplication, and zero marking; within one language, different strategies and/or different morphological markers may be used, depending on lexical, phonological, or morphological properties of the base noun...
Keywords: agreement, allomorphy, German Sign Language, inflection, number, numeral classifier, plural, reduplication, sign language
10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter