Chapter 17 Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective An assessment of the variation and steps towards explanation

• मुख्य लेखक: Urban, Matthias (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (संपादक), Juvonen, Päivi (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016
• विषय: linguistics; Lexicography; Typology; Cross-Linguistic Comparison
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This article tackles a question raised by one of the founding figures of lexical typology, Stephen Ullmann: to what degree do languages differ in the extent to which they resort to morphologically analyzable lexical items? Drawing on a worldwide sample of 78 languages for which a standard set of 160...