Morphological Change Up Close: Two and a Half Centuries of Verbal Inflection in Nuremberg

by David Fertig

Using a data base of more than 86,000 verb tokens taken from a collection of autograph texts written by fifty-one different natives of Nuremberg between 1356 and 1619, this book explores some of the many changes in verbal inflection that took place during the Early New High German period and the implications of these changes for a number of important issues in morphological and diachronic theory. Nearly all instances of change or variation in verbal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3484304227
• ISBN13: 9783484304222
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary