Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1. To cut a long story short; Chapter 2. Cognitive grammar and the cognitive linguistics family; Chapter 3. A cognitive approach to phonology; Chapter 4. A cognitive approach to morphology; Chapter 5. Alternations in Cognitive Grammar: The truncation alternation and the one-stem/two-stem controversy; Chapter 6. Neutralization and phonology-morphology interaction: Exceptional infinitive; Chapter 7. Abstractness and alternatives to rule ordering and underlying representations: Exceptional past tense
Summary
This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics? Do morphophonological alternations have a meaning? These questions are explored via a comprehensive analysis of stem alternations in Russian verbs. The analysis is couched in R.W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar framework, and the book offers comparisons to other varieties of cognitive linguistics, such as Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration. The proposed analysis is furthermore compa
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and indexes
