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On the Relative Tractability of Morphological Data

Pages 12-23 | Published online: 04 Dec 2015

  • Spoken by the Kutenai Indians of northern Idaho, northern Montana, and southeastern British Columbia.
  • Spoken by the natives of Ponape, Eastern Caṛoline Islands, Micronesia.
  • A Philippine language.
  • For a discussion in some detail, see Dwight L. Bolinger, “On Defining the Morpheme,” Word 4.18–25 (1948).
  • For details of this allomorphic variation, see my “Kutenai III: Morpheme Distributions (Prefix, Theme, Suffix),” IJAL 14.185–6 (1948).
  • Sec Louis Hjelmslev, Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, Francis Whitfield, transl. (Baltimore, 1953), p. 6.
  • Joseph Greenberg, “A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology, of Languages,” in Method and Perspective in Anthropology, Robert F. Spencer, ed (Minneapolis, 1954), pp. 192–220, has suggested some numerical criteria of use in typological classification. Some of these bear a direct relation to points covered in the present paper (thus, his index of synthesis to the separation difficulty treated in 1); note also his very pertinent discussion of the definition of the word (216–8).

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