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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Morphology is often described in the idiom of lists-affixes, categories, rules-useful inventories that nonetheless miss what languages actually do. Languages do not behave like lists. They behave like systems: dynamic, evolving, patterned, and structured across multiple scales. This book begins from a simple but transformative premise: morphology is best understood as a field shaped by geometry, forces, and motion. Across twelve chapters, it develops a comprehensive model of morphological evolution that explains not only how forms change, but why they change in the characteristic ways they do. Despite surface diversity, the world's languages are argued to inhabit a shared morphodynamic space-an architecture whose curvature constrains possible configurations, whose resonance minima stabilize recurring categories, whose boundary structure regulates layering and transitions, and whose interference laws shape co-occurrence and ordering. Within this framework, typological regularities stop looking like accidental resemblances and start reading as consequences of underlying structure. The treatise culminates in a unifying insight: morphological diversity is not random variation, and universals are not mysterious coincidences. Both follow naturally if languages move through a common morphodynamic landscape where geometry governs stability and forces govern trajectories. On this view, typology is not an external classificatory overlay; it is the large-scale signature of stability structure. Universals are emergent, cycles are the temporal footprint of interacting forces, and convergence and divergence are simply different outcomes of the same dynamics under different initial conditions and constraints. The goal is not just conceptual unification but prediction: if morphology is motion in a structured space, then transitions, thresholds, instabilities, and stable configurations become, in principle, measurable and forecastable. This book is an invitation to see morphology as it has always behaved-a living system evolving within a lawful landscape-and to test that claim with a model that can succeed or fail on its predictions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. MORPHODYNAMICS | A Field-Theoretic Synthesis of Morphological Evolution and Typological Universals | Maks Panner | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Eliva Press | EAN 9789999337175 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Morphology is often described in the idiom of lists-affixes, categories, rules-useful inventories that nonetheless miss what languages actually do. Languages do not behave like lists. They behave like systems: dynamic, evolving, patterned, and structured across multiple scales. This book begins from a simple but transformative premise: morphology is best understood as a field shaped by geometry, forces, and motion. Across twelve chapters, it develops a comprehensive model of morphological evolution that explains not only how forms change, but why they change in the characteristic ways they do. Despite surface diversity, the world's languages are argued to inhabit a shared morphodynamic space-an architecture whose curvature constrains possible configurations, whose resonance minima stabilize recurring categories, whose boundary structure regulates layering and transitions, and whose interference laws shape co-occurrence and ordering. Within this framework, typological regularities stop looking like accidental resemblances and start reading as consequences of underlying structure.The treatise culminates in a unifying insight: morphological diversity is not random variation, and universals are not mysterious coincidences. Both follow naturally if languages move through a common morphodynamic landscape where geometry governs stability and forces govern trajectories. On this view, typology is not an external classificatory overlay; it is the large-scale signature of stability structure. Universals are emergent, cycles are the temporal footprint of interacting forces, and convergence and divergence are simply different outcomes of the same dynamics under different initial conditions and constraints. The goal is not just conceptual unification but prediction: if morphology is motion in a structured space, then transitions, thresholds, instabilities, and stable configurations become, in principle, measurable and forecastable. This book is an invitation to see morphology as it has always behaved-a living system evolving within a lawful landscape-and to test that claim with a model that can succeed or fail on its predictions. …