English Prosodic Morphology

by Sabine Lappe

Book Overview

In the past years I have spent much of my time writing what in the end has become a very long book about very short words. What has emerged is a complex, but also a clear and empirically founded picture of the structural properties of English tr- cated words as well as an optimality-theoretic model of these properties in the research tradition of Prosodic Morphology. These will be of use to linguists int- ested in the structure of English as well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140206005X
• ISBN13: 9781402060052
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"