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

• Päätekijä: Urban, Matthias (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (Toimittaja), Juvonen, Päivi (Toimittaja)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016
• Aiheet: linguistics; Lexicography; Typology; Cross-Linguistic Comparison
• Linkit: 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...