Morphological Length and Prosodically Defective Morphemes

by Eva Zimmermann

This book investigates the phenomenon of morphological length manipulation: changes in segmental length that cannot be explained by phonological means alone but crucially rely on morphological information. Eva Zimmermann provides a unified theoretical account of these phenomena by taking into account all possible prosodically defective morpheme representations and their potential effects on the resulting surface structure. Data are drawn from a wide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198747322
• ISBN13: 9780198747321
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"