Lenition and fortition /

The book is a collection of articles which aims at providing an overall treatment of the question of Lenition/Fortition in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. Various current approaches to phonology are represented. The first part of the book...

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Other Authors: Carvalho, Joaquim Brandão de, Scheer, Tobias, 1968-, Ségéral, Philippe, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Series:Studies in generative grammar ; 99.
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Summary:The book is a collection of articles which aims at providing an overall treatment of the question of Lenition/Fortition in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. Various current approaches to phonology are represented. The first part of the book is intended to provide stable and, if possible, pre-theoretical criteria that allow to characterize phenomena which count as Lenition/Fortition, and to work out the properties of the phenomena under study. The second part of the book deals with Lenition in selected language families. The third and.
Item Description:EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 597 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110211443
3110211440
1281999547
9781281999542
9786611999544
661199954X