Inheritance and Inflectional morphology: Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek - 94

Inheritance, which has its origins in the field of artificial intelligence, is a framework focusing on shared properties.

When applied to inflectional morphology, it enables useful generalisations within and across paradigms.

The inheritance tree format serves as an alternative to traditional paradigms and provides a visual representation of the structure of the language's morphology.

In this book, the nominal inflectional morphology of Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek are analysed using inheritance trees.