Books written by Dunstan Brown

  • The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism

    ... of order and constituency 74 ALICE C. HARRIS AND LYLE CAMPBELL : Historical syntax in cross - linguistic perspective ... meaning : The semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers 100 IAN ROBERTS AND ANNA ROUSSOU : Syntactic change :

  • Network Morphology: A Defaults-based Theory of Word Structure

    But in fact, gerundives have a passive interpretation for only transitive verbs, e.g. patria defendenda est 'our country must be defended' (Schmitz 2004: 289), signifying 'something must be done'. The agent, if there is one, ...

  • Network Morphology: A Defaults-based Theory of Word Structure

    Aux–Subject order jij lees-t het boek lees jij het boek? you read-2sg the book read.2sg you the book? One solution is to think of this as a case of 'reduced agreement' (Corbett 2006: ch. 6; personal communication).

  • Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity

    This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language.

  • The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism

    This book presents a compelling argument for the autonomy of morphology and the resulting analysis is illustrated in a series of formal case studies within Network Morphology.

  • Morphological Complexity

    Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett. 164 Morphological Complexity and Morphological ... Morphological Complexity and Morphological Autonomy 165 morphology is parasitic of Morphological Complexity and Morphological Autonomy.