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

Jonathan David Bobaljik
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
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  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
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  • Abbreviations (page xi)
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  • 1 Introduction
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    • 1.1 Introduction (page 1)
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    • 1.2 Distributed Morphology (page 6)
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    • 1.3 Constructing the Database (page 15)
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    • 1.4 Comparative Typology (page 18)
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  • 2 Comparative Suppletion
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    • 2.1 Introduction (page 27)
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    • 2.2 *ABA: Explaining a Gap (page 31)
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    • 2.3 Universal Grammar versus the European Sprachbund (page 39)
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    • 2.4 Summary (page 47)
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  • 3 The Containment Hypothesis
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    • 3.1 Introduction (page 49)
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    • 3.2 Transparent Containment (page 49)
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    • 3.3 Comparison and the Synthetic/Analytic Divide (page 67)
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    • 3.4 The Synthetic Superlative Generalization (page 79)
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    • 3.5 Containment and Semantic Considerations (page 95)
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    • 3.6 Chapter Summary (page 103)
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  • 4 The Comparative-Superlative Generalization: The Data
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    • 4.1 Adjectives (page 105)
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    • 4.2 Adverbs (page 116)
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    • 4.3 Quantifiers (page 123)
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    • 4.4 Chapter Summary (page 135)
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  • 5 Theoretical Refinements
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    • 5.1 Introduction: Taking Stock (page 137)
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    • 5.2 Conditions on Suppletion: Exponence versus Readjustment (page 139)
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    • 5.3 Adjacency, ABC, *AAB (page 144)
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    • 5.4 AAB Ablaut (page 158)
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    • 5.5 Merger, Rule Ordering, Diacritics, and Acquisition (page 163)
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  • 6 Getting Better: Comparison and Deadjectival Verbs
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    • 6.1 Introduction (page 169)
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    • 6.2 Preliminary Remarks (page 172)
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    • 6.3 Deadjectival Degree Achievements: Doubting Dowty (page 176)
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    • 6.4 To Good, to Badden, and to Many (page 187)
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    • 6.5 Summary: What's the Difference? (page 205)
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  • 7 Complexity, Bundling, and Lesslessness
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    • 7.1 Introduction (page 209)
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    • 7.2 Lesslessness (page 213)
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    • 7.3 Conservative Decomposition: Adjacency and Bundling (page 221)
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    • 7.4 Concluding Remarks (page 224)
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  • Appendixes (page 227)
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  • A The Broad Sample (page 229)
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  • B The Focused Survey (page 243)
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  • C Principal Sources (page 257)
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  • References (page 269)
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  • Index
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Published: c2012
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780262305525 (ebook)
  • 9780262017596 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Linguistics
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