Features

By:

Greville G. Corbett

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

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Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual, …), Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and Tense (present, past, …). Features have a major role in contemporary linguistics, from the most abstract theorizing to the most applied computational applications, yet little is firmly established about their status. They are used, but are little discussed and poorly understood. In this unique work, Corbett brings together two lines of research: how features vary between languages and how they work. As a result, the book is of great value to the broad range of perspectives of those who are interested in language.

Author Biography:

Greville G. Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Surrey, where he leads the Surrey Morphology Group. His previous works on the typology of features include Gender (1991), Number (2000) and Agreement (2006).

Release date NZ

October 11th, 2012

Author

Greville G. Corbett

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

14 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, unspecified; 5 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

338

Series

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Dimensions

174x245x15

ISBN-13

9781107661080

Product ID

19802036

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