TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harbour,Daniel
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Morphosemantic Number: From Kiowa Noun Classes To UG Number Features
T2  - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
SN  - 9781402050381
U1  - 401.43 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - LINGUISTICS
KW  - INDIC PHILOLOGY
KW  - GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL
KW  - PHONOLOGY
KW  - SEMANTICS
KW  - SYNTAX
KW  - AMERI-INDIAN LANGUAGES
KW  - GRAMMAR
N1  - Framework -- Kiowa's Noun Classes -- Number Features -- Agreement And Suppletion -- The Agreement Prefix -- Conclusions and Consequences
N2  - Number is a major research domain in semantics, syntax and morphology. However, no current theory of number is applicable to all three fields. In this work, Harbour argues that a unified theory is not only possible, but necessary for the study of Universal Grammar. Through insightful analysis of unfamiliar data, he shows that one and the same feature set is implicated in semantic and morphological number phenomena alike, with syntax acting as the conduit between the two. At the heart of the study is an original treatment of Kiowa, a North American language with a remarkable constellation of characteristics, including semantically based noun classification and complex agreement morphology. This volume presents: the foundations of a unified morphosemantic theory of number; insight into the flow of information from the lexicon, via syntax, into the morphology; wide-ranging topics: nominal semantics, noun classes, DP syntax, agreement, suppletion, complex morphology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5038-1
ER  -