Kanonische morphologische Komplexität im Sorbischen
Canonical Morphological Complexity in the Sorbian Language
Author(s): Thomas MenzelSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Domowina-Verlag GmbH / Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina
Keywords: inflection complexity; linguistic typology of Sorbian; inflective irregularity; inflection paradigms; motivated vs. morphemic complexity; synthetic vs. analytical inflection forms; Flexionskomplexität
Summary/Abstract: This study presents the approach developed by Greville Corbett of canonical inflection complexity as an instrument for evaluating inflective complexity. The comprehensive typology of complexity relationships, developed in Corbett (2015) using the example of a number of very different languages, is here applied to the inflective system of just one language, the Upper Sorbian literary language – comparing it with that of Lower Sorbian. The impressive diversity of complexity relationships, which characterizes Corbett’s model, can even be detected within one single Slav language.
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 81-106
- Page Count: 26
- Language: German
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