Features /

"Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual, ...), Person (1st, 2nd, 3r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Corbett, Greville G.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:	Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general. Language and languages > Grammars. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Why features?; 2. Formal perspectives: the internal structure of features; 3. Features for different components; 4. Justifying particular features and their values; 5. Typology; 6. Canonical typology and features; 7. Determining feature values: a case study on case; 8. Feature-value mismatches; 9. Conclusions; Appendix: standards and implementations; Reference; Author index; Language index; Subject index.