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

• Үндсэн зохиолч: Urban, Matthias (auth)
• Бусад зохиолчид: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (Засварлагч), Juvonen, Päivi (Засварлагч)
• Формат: Цахим Номын бүлэг
• Хэл сонгох: англи
• Хэвлэсэн: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016
• Нөхцлүүд: linguistics; Lexicography; Typology; Cross-Linguistic Comparison
• Онлайн хандалт: 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...