Universals in Comparative Morphology : Suppletion, Superlatives, and the Structure of Words.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Distributed Morphology -- 1.3 Constructing the Database -- 1.4 Comparative Typology -- 2 Comparative Suppletion -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 *ABA: Explaining a Gap -- 2.3 Universal Grammar versus the European Sprachbund -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 The Containment Hypothesis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Transparent Containment -- 3.3 Comparison and the Synthetic/Analytic Divide -- 3.4 The Synthetic Superlative Generalization -- 3.5 Containment and Semantic Considerations -- 3.6 Chapter Summary -- 4 The Comparative-Superlative Generalization: The Data -- 4.1 Adjectives -- 4.2 Adverbs -- 4.3 Quantifiers -- 4.4 Chapter Summary -- 5 Theoretical Refinements -- 5.1 Introduction: Taking Stock -- 5.2 Conditions on Suppletion: Exponence versus Readjustment -- 5.3 Adjacency, ABC, *AAB -- 5.4 AAB Ablaut -- 5.5 Merger, Rule Ordering, Diacritics, and Acquisition -- 6 Getting Better: Comparison and Deadjectival Verbs -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Preliminary Remarks -- 6.3 Deadjectival Degree Achievements: Doubting Dowty -- 6.4 To Good, to Badden, and to Many -- 6.5 Summary: What's the Difference? -- 7 Complexity, Bundling, and Lesslessness -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Lesslessness -- 7.3 Conservative Decomposition: Adjacency and Bundling -- 7.4 Concluding Remarks -- Appendixes -- A The Broad Sample -- B The Focused Survey -- C Principal Sources -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Language Index -- Current Studies in Linguistics.

An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor.

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