Morphology Semantics Mismatches And The Nature Of Grammatical Features

Author : Peter W. Smith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501510991

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Morphology-Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical Features by Peter W. Smith Pdf

Hybrid nouns have a morphological shape that doesn’t match their semantic interpretation. Such nouns pose clear and interesting questions for the nature of grammatical features. For instance, how does a single feature contribute distinct information values to different components of the grammar? Furthermore, what does this observation reveal about the syntax, often taken to mediate between the morphology and the semantics? This book studies hybrid nouns and argues that a single grammatical feature is comprised of two halves, a semantic half and a morphological half, that coexist in the syntax before being sent to the respective interfaces. Viewing features in this way allows us a new look at numerous types of hybrid nouns, such as Imposter constructions, nouns of collection, as well as nouns like ‘furniture’ that straddle the mass-count distinction. Moreover, the study of the agreement patterns of hybrid nouns shows that semantic features behave differently to morphological features under agreement, providing a novel insight into the nature of the mechanism that underlies morphosyntactic agreement.

Author : Francis Katamba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415270839

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Morphology: Morphology: its relation to semantics and the lexicon by Francis Katamba Pdf

This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the merits of each, with the benefit of evidence rather than prejudice.

Author : Laure Gardelle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031445613

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Nouns and the Morphosyntax / Semantics Interface by Laure Gardelle Pdf

Author : Stanley Starosta
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 082482105X

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Grammatical Analysis by Stanley Starosta Pdf

This volume focuses on problems in the morphological and syntactic analysis of certain Asian and Pacific languages, bringing to bear alternative theories of grammar, including relational, categorical, and lexicase dependency grammar, and a whole-word approach to morphology.

Author : Roland Pfau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289636

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Grammar as Processor by Roland Pfau Pdf

Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors that is informed by grammar theory. In particular, it is shown how characteristic properties of erroneous German utterances can be accounted for within Distributed Morphology (DM). The investigation focuses on two groups of errors: Errors that result from the manipulation of semantic and morphosyntactic features, and errors which appear to involve the application of a post-error repair strategy. It is argued that a production model which incorporates DM allows for a straightforward account of the attested, sometimes complex, error patterns. DM mechanisms, for instance, render unnecessary the assumption of repair processes. Besides providing an account for the attested error patterns, the theory also helps us in explaining why certain errors do not occur. In this sense, DM makes for a psychologically real model of grammar.

Author : Franz Rainer,Francesco Gardani,Hans Christian Luschützky,Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270931

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Morphology and Meaning by Franz Rainer,Francesco Gardani,Hans Christian Luschützky,Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is followed by three articles derived from the plenaries that are dedicated to fundamental issues such as the relationship between morphological meaning and concepts, between word formation and meaning change, as well as indirect coding. The section papers tackle a wide array of issues, including affixal polysemy, pathways of grammaticalization, the processing of compounds, mismatches between form and meaning, synonymy avoidance, or the semantics of specific patterns of noun incorporation, compounding, reduplication and mimetic verbs.

Author : Berthold Crysmann,Manfred Sailer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103072

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One-to-many-relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics by Berthold Crysmann,Manfred Sailer Pdf

The standard view of the form-meaning interfaces, as embraced by the great majority of contemporary grammatical frameworks, consists in the assumption that meaning can be associated with grammatical form in a one-to-one correspondence. Under this view, composition is quite straightforward, involving concatenation of form, paired with functional application in meaning. In this book, we discuss linguistic phenomena across several grammatical sub-modules (morphology, syntax, semantics) that apparently pose a problem to the standard view, mapping out the potential for deviation from the ideal of one-to-one correspondences, and develop formal accounts of the range of phenomena. We argue that a constraint-based perspective is particularly apt to accommodate deviations from one-to-many correspondences, as it allows us to impose constraints on full structures (such as a complete word or the interpretation of a full sentence) instead of deriving such structures step by step. Most of the papers in this volume are formulated in a particular constraint-based grammar framework, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The contributions investigate how the lexical and constructional aspects of this theory can be combined to provide an answer to this question across different linguistic sub-theories.

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139454049

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Morphology and Lexical Semantics by Rochelle Lieber Pdf

Morphology and Lexical Semantics explores the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, including derived words (writer, unionise), compounds (dog bed, truck driver) and words formed by conversion. Rochelle Lieber discusses the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way, allowing the reader to explore the nature of affixal polysemy, the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function and the issues of mismatch between form and meaning in word formation. Using a series of case studies from English, this book develops and justifies the theoretical apparatus necessary for raising and answering many questions about the semantics of word formation. Distinguishing between a lexical semantic skeleton that is featural and hierarchically organised and a lexical semantic body that is holistic, it shows how the semantics of word formation has a paradigmatic character.

Author : Elaine Francis,Laura A. Michaelis
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575863847

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Mismatch by Elaine Francis,Laura A. Michaelis Pdf

Linguistic mismatch phenomena involve semiotic functions that attach to forms in defiance of grammatical design features. Noun phrases, when used as predicates, provide one example: how do predicate nominals correspond to our theories of what nouns mean? How do such phenomena challenge traditional conceptions of grammar? How do competing theories of the syntax-semantics interface stand up when confronted with mismatch phenomena? Mismatch addresses these questions through the efforts of some of the most original thinkers in syntactic and semantic theory, exploring a wide variety of mismatch phenomena in a broad sampling of languages.

Author : Zeki Hamawand
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441150851

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Morphology in English by Zeki Hamawand Pdf

Morphology in English is a text which provides an in-depth analysis of the branch of linguistics which studies the formation of composite words and the form-meaning relationships between their subparts. It takes a cognitive viewpoint and provides full coverage of the essential topics of prefixation, suffixation and compounding. It covers categorization, configuration and conceptualization and enables readers to recognize the complexity of the English lexical system. It demonstrates the pivotal role which morphemes play in the expansion of a languages lexical store. The book combines two aspects of language: word formation and semantic distinctions regarding usage, enabling readers to understand the formation of composite words and their use in natural language. The book features: clear layout accessible style explicit definitions vivid illustrations actual data examples exercises further reading appendices companion website with full answer set

Author : Francis Katamba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415270790

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Morphology by Francis Katamba Pdf

This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the merits of each, with the benefit of evidence rather than prejudice.

Author : Francis Katamba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415270820

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Morphology: Morphology: its relation to syntax by Francis Katamba Pdf

This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the merits of each, with the benefit of evidence rather than prejudice.

Author : John T. Jensen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278296

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Morphology by John T. Jensen Pdf

A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more recent development of lexicalist phonology and morphology in the works of Paul Kiparsky and others. Other approaches are recognized, but the use of one unified, consistent theory pushed to its limit makes for a better student text. Each chapter includes a list of terms, of further reading, and a number of exercises. The volume is completed by an index.

Author : Jerrold M. Sadock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226733459

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Autolexical Syntax by Jerrold M. Sadock Pdf

In Autolexical Syntax, Jerrold M. Sadock argues for a radical departure from the derivational model of grammar that has prevailed in linguistics for thirty years. He offers an alternative theory in which the various components of grammar—in particular syntax, semantics, and morphology—are viewed as fully autonomous descriptive devices for various parallel dimensions of linguistic representation. The lexicon in this theory forges the connection between autonomous representations in that a typical lexeme plays a role in all three of the major components of the grammar. Sadock's principal innovation is the postulation of a uniform set of interface conditions that require the several orthogonal representations of a single natural language expression to match up in certain ways. Through a detailed application of his theory to the twin morphosyntactic problems of cliticization and incorporation, Sadock shows that very straightforward accounts are made possible by the nonderivational model. He demonstrates the empirical success of these accounts by examining more than two dozen morphosyntactic problems in almost as many languages. Autolexical Syntax will be of interest to those in the fields of theoretical grammar, particularly concerned with the problems of morphology and syntax, as well as philosophers of language, logicians, lexicographers, psychologists of language, and computer scientists.

Author : Uwe Junghanns,Luka Szucsich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110178249

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Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information by Uwe Junghanns,Luka Szucsich Pdf

This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.