The Phonology of Polish by Edmund Gussmann - ISBN: 9780199267477
Hardcover
In the most complete phonology of Contemporary Standard Polish ever published Edmund Gussmann presents a wide range of data, much drawn from his own research and all presented in a clear, accessible manner. This important book will interest all scholars and advanced students of Polish and Slavic phonology.

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  • Hardcover

    382 pages

  • Release Date

    18 October 2007

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Summary

This book is the most complete phonology of contemporary Polish ever published. It is topic-oriented and presents the fundamental characteristics and problems associated with each topic, among them syllable structure, vowel-zero alternations, palatalizations, and other vowel and consonant changes. Professor Gussmann re-examines assumptions about phonological contrasts and alternations, and raises and addresses central questions in morphophonology. He takesmorphophonology to be systematically …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199267477
ISBN-10:0199267472
Author:Edmund Gussmann
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:382
Release Date:18 October 2007
Weight:710g
Dimensions:241mm x 162mm x 29mm
Series:The Phonology of the World's Languages
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Critics Review

…examples are well presented and easily accessible to the reader, and are an invaluable source of data for future research on Polish. ..this book makes an important contribution to the study of Polish. Ania Lubowicz, Phonology

About The Author

Edmund Gussmann

Edmund Gussmann is Professor and Chair of Icelandic in the School of Scandinavian Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. He was formerly head of the Department of Celtic, at the Catholic University of Lublin and visiting professor at University College Dublin, UCLA, and University of London. He has worked in phonological theory and the phonology of Polish, English, Icelandic and Irish. His books include Introduction to Phonological Analysis (1980),Studies in Abstract Phonology (1980), Phono-Morphology (1985), Rules and the Lexicon (1987), Licensing in Syntax and Phonology (1995), A Reverse Dictionary of Modern Irish, with A. Doyle, (1996), andPhonology. Analysis and Theory (2002).

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