Paradigm Structure And Predictability In Latin Inflection

Author : Matteo Pellegrini
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Paradigm Structure and Predictability in Latin Inflection by Matteo Pellegrini Pdf

Latin paradigms are almost proverbially known, and they have often been used as a test case for different theoretical approaches to morphological complexity. This book analyses them in a completely word-based perspective, using a recently developed information-theoretic methodology, making entropy-based techniques of analysis available to a wider readership. By doing so, it shows the relevance of traditional notions like principal parts, giving them a more principled, data-driven formulation. Furthermore, it suggests enhancements to the standard information-theoretic methodology, allowing to account for the role of external factors - like gender and derivational information - in improving predictability between inflected word forms. This book is useful to morphologists, that will see ideas and techniques taken from the current debate on morphological theory tested on complex phenomena of a language as renowned as Latin. It is also helpful for scholars working in both Latin and Romance linguistics: the former will find a freely available lexical resource and a novel description of Latin paradigms, that can be exploited by the latter to draw a comparison with recent analyses of the inflectional morphology of several Romance languages.

Author : Matteo Pellegrini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031248443

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Paradigm Structure and Predictability in Latin Inflection by Matteo Pellegrini Pdf

Latin paradigms are almost proverbially known, and they have often been used as a test case for different theoretical approaches to morphological complexity. This book analyses them in a completely word-based perspective, using a recently developed information-theoretic methodology, making entropy-based techniques of analysis available to a wider readership. By doing so, it shows the relevance of traditional notions like principal parts, giving them a more principled, data-driven formulation. Furthermore, it suggests enhancements to the standard information-theoretic methodology, allowing to account for the role of external factors – like gender and derivational information – in improving predictability between inflected word forms. This book is useful to morphologists, that will see ideas and techniques taken from the current debate on morphological theory tested on complex phenomena of a language as renowned as Latin. It is also helpful for scholars working in both Latin and Romance linguistics: the former will find a freely available lexical resource and a novel description of Latin paradigms, that can be exploited by the latter to draw a comparison with recent analyses of the inflectional morphology of several Romance languages.

Author : Gereon Müller,Lutz Gunkel,Gisela Zifonun
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197501

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Explorations in Nominal Inflection by Gereon Müller,Lutz Gunkel,Gisela Zifonun Pdf

Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages. The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components. Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class, case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement, the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features, and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality, specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various theoretical frameworks. James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and Economy Bernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Underspecification in Russian Declension

Author : Lila R. Gleitman,Barbara Landau
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262571099

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The Acquisition of the Lexicon by Lila R. Gleitman,Barbara Landau Pdf

This text brings together investigations from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (with an emphasis on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science) to examine how young children rapidly acquire the vocabulary of their native tongue, and with few errors along the way.

Author : Frans Plank
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110889109

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Paradigms by Frans Plank Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191559624

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The Evolution of Morphology by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy Pdf

This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of non-biological constraints on how language must be structured. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy argues that in certain crucial respects language is not optimally designed. This can be seen, he suggests, in the existence of not one but two kinds of grammatical organization - syntax and morphology - and in the morphological and morpho-phonological complexity which leads to numerous departures from the one-form-one-meaning principle. Having discussed the issue of good and bad design in a wider biological context, the author shows that conventional explanations for the nature of morphology do not work. Its poor design features arose, he argues, from two characteristics present when the ancestors of modern humans had a vocabulary but no grammar. One of these was a synonymy-avoidance expectation, while the other was an articulatory and phonological apparatus that encouraged the development of new synonyms. Morphology developed in response to these conflicting pressures. In this stimulating and carefully argued account Professor McCarthy offers a powerful challenge to conventional views of the relationship between syntax and morphology, to the adaptationist view of language evolution, and to the notion that language in some way reflects 'laws of form'. This fundamental contribution to understanding the nature and evolution of language will be of wide interest to linguists of all theoretical persuasions as well as to scholars in cognitive science and anthropology.

Author : Dunstan Brown,Andrew Hippisley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107005747

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Network Morphology by Dunstan Brown,Andrew Hippisley Pdf

A study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as 'Network Morphology'.

Author : Jürgen Klausenburger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723700X

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Grammaticalization by Jürgen Klausenburger Pdf

In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion of the latter. Parameters of natural morphology are seen as principles of grammaticalization, but the reverse is also true, rendering grammaticalization and natural morphology indistinguishable. In the context of this theoretical framework, Chapter 2 deals with Latin, French, and Italian verbal inflection, focusing on universal and system-dependent parameters of natural morphology. In Chapter 3, a theory of grammaticalization is built on divergent elements, including not only grammaticalization studies proper, but also the perception/production line of inquiry, and typology and branching issues, permitting the phasing out of the traditional synthesis/analyis cycle. Chapter 4 touches on nominal inflection, in particular that of Old French and Rumanian, the most revealing histories in the Romance domain. Chapter 5, finally, thoroughly discusses extant theoretical questions in grammaticalization, prominently featuring the relevance of 'invisible hand' explanations and the crucial role played by unidirectionality. This study will be of interest to specialists in Romance and historical linguistics, as well as morphological theory.

Author : Matthew Baerman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191664939

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The Oxford Handbook of Inflection by Matthew Baerman Pdf

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014). It provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of work on inflection - the expression of grammatical information through changes in word forms. The volume's 24 chapters are written by experts in the field from a variety of theoretical backgrounds, with examples drawn from a wide range of languages. The first part of the handbook covers the fundamental building blocks of inflectional form and content: morphemes, features, and means of exponence. Part 2 focuses on what is arguably the most characteristic property of inflectional systems, paradigmatic structure, and the non-trivial nature of the mapping between function and form. The third part deals with change and variation over time, and the fourth part covers computational issues from a theoretical and practical standpoint. Part 5 addresses psycholinguistic questions relating to language acquisition and neurocognitive disorders. The final part is devoted to sketches of individual inflectional systems, illustrating a range of typological possibilities across a genetically diverse set of languages from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Australia, Europe, and South America.

Author : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521800723

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

This Cambridge history is the definitive guide to the comparative history of the Romance languages. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance).

Author : Gualtiero Calboli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8889670002

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Papers on Grammar by Gualtiero Calboli Pdf

Author : Linguistic Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : IND:30000107481719

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Meeting Handbook by Linguistic Society of America Pdf

Author : Mark Baltin,Chris Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470756355

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The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory by Mark Baltin,Chris Collins Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the current issues in contemporary syntactic theory. Written by an international assembly of leading specialists in the field, these 2 original articles serve as a useful reference for various areas of grammar. Contains 23 articles written by an international assembly of specialists in the field. The lucidly written articles grant accessibility to crucial areas of syntactic theory. Contrasting theories are represented. Contains an informative introduction and extensive bibliography which serves as a reference tool for both students and professional linguists.

Author : Gregory Thomas Stump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : OCLC:848732576

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Inflectional Morphology by Gregory Thomas Stump Pdf

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136897757

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The Major Languages of Western Europe by Bernard Comrie Pdf

Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.