Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives, and the Structure of Words

by Jonathan David Bobaljik

An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor.

This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually exceptionless generalizations across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017598
• ISBN13: 9780262017596
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher