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Correlating complexity: A typological approach

Proceeding from the assumption that all languages are equally complex, there exists a corollary, widely held but poorly documented, herein referred to as the negative correlation hypothesis...

Keywords: complexity, inflection, inflectional synthesis, morphology, phonology, syllable

07/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Suppletion in personal pronouns: Theory versus practice, and the place of reproducibility in typology

Reference grammars often set out the personal pronouns in paradigms similar to those of nouns...

Keywords: animacy hierarchy, associative, case, count?mass, database, inclusive?exclusive, inflection, minimal?augmented, number, paradigm, personal pronoun, plural, pronoun, reproducibility, suppletion, syncretism

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study

Spoken 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

Focused assertion of identity: A typology of intensifiers

Intensifiers such as himself/herself in English, ipse/ipsa in Latin, stesso/stessa in Italian, sam/samá in Russian, or selbst in German are most easily identifiable in terms of their prosodic and semantic properties...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, emphatic reflexive, focus, grammaticalization, inflection, intensifier, reflexive, word class