Functional structure in morphology and the case of nonfinite verbs : theoretical issues and the description of the Danish verb system / Peter Juul Nielsen
Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Preliminaries -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 3 Indexicality -- 4 Syntagmatic Relations -- 5 Paradigmatic Relations -- 6 The Zero Sign -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 7 Inflection and Derivation -- 8 The Combinatorial Properties of Morphological Structures -- 9 Relations across Categories -- 10 Dependency in Morphological Combination -- 11 Expansion and Its Absence in Transcategorial Relations -- Summary of Part 3 -- Introduction to Part 4 -- 12 Infinitive in Danish: Zero vs. at -- 13 Supine vs. Perfect Participle in Danish -- 14 Supine in Danish and Swedish -- 15 Recapitulation -- 16 Morphology Reconsidered: Concluding Discussion -- 17 Final Remarks and Further Perspectives -- References -- Index
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"In this book Peter Juul Nielsen examines the foundations of morphological theory from a structural-functional perspective on language as a sign system with the empirical challenge of describing the nonfinite verb forms in Danish as his point of departure"--Provided by publisher
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