Author: Andrea D. Sims
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131635203X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface, the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of linguistics.
Inflectional Defectiveness
Author: Andrea D. Sims
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131635203X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface, the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of linguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131635203X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface, the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of linguistics.
Defective Paradigms
Author: Matthew Baerman
Publisher: British Academy
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Deponency and Morphological Mismatches edited by Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown & Andrew Hippisley --
Publisher: British Academy
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Deponency and Morphological Mismatches edited by Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown & Andrew Hippisley --
Minding the Gaps
Author: Andrea D. Sims
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language, Modern
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Abstract: A central question within morphological theory is whether an adequate description of inflection necessitates connections between and among inflectionally related forms, i.e. paradigmatic structure. Researchers have recently shown that paradigmatic models are capable of describing periphrasis and paradigmatic gaps, but have failed to provide evidence that an adequate description of gaps requires reference to paradigmatic structure. In this dissertation I argue that crucial evidence that paradigmatic structure underpins gaps is to be found in speakers' reactions to inflectional defectiveness. I show through a series of experiments and distributional statistics that gaps in the genitive plural of Modern Greek nouns and the first person singular non-past of Russian verbs arose from speakers' insecurity over competition between paradigmatic patterns of inflection. The appearance of the gaps can thus be adequately explained only with reference to the inflectional paradigm. I formalize this approach in a Word and Paradigm model incorporating multidimensional inheritance hierarchies. At the same time, historical causation is not to be confused with synchronic structure. The distributional patterns of the Modern Greek and Russian gaps resemble those which previous researchers have used to posit that gaps are optimal failures -- synchronically epiphenomenal to productive word formation processes. However, a detailed analysis of speakers' reactions to the Greek and Russian data shows gaps and productive inflectional forms to pattern differently. I interpret this to mean that the Greek and Russian gaps have become disassociated from their original causative factors, leaving the former as idiosyncratic facts of their respective languages. This conclusion throws previous gaps-as-epiphenomena accounts into doubt. This dissertation makes a substantive contribution on three levels. First, it adds a new type of evidence to the body of research on paradigmatic gaps by exploring speakers' resolution strategies, beliefs about language structure, and how those beliefs shape defective inflection. Second, it suggests that paradigmatic predictability is a significant force in morphological systems, in ways that are not typically acknowledged even by paradigm-based models. Finally, while the historical development of gaps may be well motivated, the synchronic reality can be very different. This supports viewing language as a series of small-scale, overlapping generalizations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language, Modern
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Abstract: A central question within morphological theory is whether an adequate description of inflection necessitates connections between and among inflectionally related forms, i.e. paradigmatic structure. Researchers have recently shown that paradigmatic models are capable of describing periphrasis and paradigmatic gaps, but have failed to provide evidence that an adequate description of gaps requires reference to paradigmatic structure. In this dissertation I argue that crucial evidence that paradigmatic structure underpins gaps is to be found in speakers' reactions to inflectional defectiveness. I show through a series of experiments and distributional statistics that gaps in the genitive plural of Modern Greek nouns and the first person singular non-past of Russian verbs arose from speakers' insecurity over competition between paradigmatic patterns of inflection. The appearance of the gaps can thus be adequately explained only with reference to the inflectional paradigm. I formalize this approach in a Word and Paradigm model incorporating multidimensional inheritance hierarchies. At the same time, historical causation is not to be confused with synchronic structure. The distributional patterns of the Modern Greek and Russian gaps resemble those which previous researchers have used to posit that gaps are optimal failures -- synchronically epiphenomenal to productive word formation processes. However, a detailed analysis of speakers' reactions to the Greek and Russian data shows gaps and productive inflectional forms to pattern differently. I interpret this to mean that the Greek and Russian gaps have become disassociated from their original causative factors, leaving the former as idiosyncratic facts of their respective languages. This conclusion throws previous gaps-as-epiphenomena accounts into doubt. This dissertation makes a substantive contribution on three levels. First, it adds a new type of evidence to the body of research on paradigmatic gaps by exploring speakers' resolution strategies, beliefs about language structure, and how those beliefs shape defective inflection. Second, it suggests that paradigmatic predictability is a significant force in morphological systems, in ways that are not typically acknowledged even by paradigm-based models. Finally, while the historical development of gaps may be well motivated, the synchronic reality can be very different. This supports viewing language as a series of small-scale, overlapping generalizations.
Hungarian Inflectional Morphology
Author: Daniel Mario Abondolo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Spanish Verb
Author: Peter Edward Traub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Glossa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Proceedings of the British Academy
ACL 2007
Author: Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computational linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computational linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Deponency and Morphological Mismatches
Author: Matthew Baerman
Publisher: British Academy
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This collection of essays by leading linguists on the theory and typology of mismatches between syntax and morphology will establish the important role that research on deponency has to play in contemporary linguistics, and set the standard for future work.
Publisher: British Academy
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This collection of essays by leading linguists on the theory and typology of mismatches between syntax and morphology will establish the important role that research on deponency has to play in contemporary linguistics, and set the standard for future work.
Readings in Applied English Linguistics
Author: Harold Byron Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Applied linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Applied linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description