Understanding And Measuring Morphological Complexity

Author : Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191035708

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Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity by Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett Pdf

This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have of being complex, perhaps none is as daunting as what can be achieved by inflectional morphology: this volume examines languages such as Archi, which has a 1,000,000-form verb paradigm, and Chinantec, which has over 100 inflection classes. Alongside this complexity, inflection is notable for its variety across languages: one can take two unrelated languages and discover that they share similar syntax or phonology, but one would be hard pressed to find two unrelated languages with the same inflectional systems. In this volume, senior scholars and junior researchers highlight novel perspectives on conceptualizing morphological complexity, and offer concrete means for measuring, quantifying and analysing it. Examples are drawn from a wide range of languages, including those of North America, New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, alongside a number of European languages. The book will be a valuable resource for all those studying complexity phenomena in morphology, and for theoretical linguists more generally, from graduate level upwards.

Author : Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107120648

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Morphological Complexity by Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett Pdf

This book characterises the diverse morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world. Richly illustrated, examples are drawn from dozens of different languages and are subjected to rigorous quantitative analysis. It will be ideal reading for academic researchers and graduate students of linguistics, with a special interest in morphology and English language.

Author : Peter Arkadiev,Francesco Gardani
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198861287

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The Complexities of Morphology by Peter Arkadiev,Francesco Gardani Pdf

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, offering typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from a wide range of languages, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.

Author : Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668984

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The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory by Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini Pdf

Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Construction Morphology...

Author : Łukasz Dębowski ,Christian Bentz
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783039360260

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Information Theory and Language by Łukasz Dębowski ,Christian Bentz Pdf

“Information Theory and Language” is a collection of 12 articles that appeared recently in Entropy as part of a Special Issue of the same title. These contributions represent state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research at the interface of information theory and language studies. They concern in particular: • Applications of information theoretic concepts such as Shannon and Rényi entropies, mutual information, and rate–distortion curves to the research of natural languages; • Mathematical work in information theory inspired by natural language phenomena, such as deriving moments of subword complexity or proving continuity of mutual information; • Empirical and theoretical investigation of quantitative laws of natural language such as Zipf’s law, Herdan’s law, and Menzerath–Altmann’s law; • Empirical and theoretical investigations of statistical language models, including recently developed neural language models, their entropies, and other parameters; • Standardizing language resources for statistical investigation of natural language; • Other topics concerning semantics, syntax, and critical phenomena. Whereas the traditional divide between probabilistic and formal approaches to human language, cultivated in the disjoint scholarships of natural sciences and humanities, has been blurred in recent years, this book can contribute to pointing out potential areas of future research cross-fertilization.

Author : Matthew Baerman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474446020

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Morphological Perspectives by Matthew Baerman Pdf

Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.

Author : Marcel Schlechtweg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110570861

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Memorization and the Compound-Phrase Distinction by Marcel Schlechtweg Pdf

Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspective. The analysis focuses on compounds and phrases that are composed of either an adjective and a noun or two nouns in German, French and English. Having distinguished compounds from phrases on structural and semantic-functional grounds, the author claims that compounds are by their nature more appropriate to be stored in the mental lexicon than phrases and supports his argument with empirical evidence from new psycholinguistic studies. In sum, the book maintains the separation between compounds and phrases and reflects upon its cognitive consequences.

Author : Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110432442

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Word Knowledge and Word Usage by Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word frequency distributions and information theoretical measures of word families, statistical correlations across psycho-linguistic and cognitive evidence, principles of machine learning and integrative brain models of word storage and processing. Main goal of the book will be to map out the landscape of future research in this area, to foster the development of interdisciplinary curricula and help single-domain specialists understand and address issues and questions as they are raised in other disciplines.

Author : Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110692129

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Associated Motion by Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch Pdf

This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

Author : Masako Fidler,Václav Cvrček
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319980171

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Taming the Corpus by Masako Fidler,Václav Cvrček Pdf

This book bridges the current quantitative and qualitative text analyses, using grammar as a crucial source of investigation. Taking data from Czech, an inflected language, in which the most optimal conditions to respond to this research question are met, the book expands the understanding of language and text in ways that have not been executed before. For predominantly English-based quantitative research, this volume fills a crucial gap by examining the relationship between inflection and other phenomena (including discourse, translation and literature). For the current qualitative research, the volume provides large empirical data to confirm some of its claims, but more importantly, it demonstrates the important role of detailed grammatical concepts that have not been considered before. Besides addressing fundamental questions about text analysis methods, the volume presents a diverse array of Czech data that are unique in their own right and worthy of dissemination to the general audience. Taming the Corpus: From Inflection and Lexis to Interpretation is divided into three sections. Section 1 deals with phonotactics, poetic structure, morphological complexity used to differentiate literary style, and native speakers’ sense of grammaticality – issues pertinent to linguistic typology, cognition and language, and literary studies. Section 2 focuses on inter-language relations, especially the theory of translation. Section 3 demonstrates how quantitative analysis of texts can contribute to our understanding of society and connects the volume to legal language, construction of gender and discourse position and implicit ideology.

Author : Kilu Von Prince,Marcin Maria Kilarski
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889762910

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Motivations for Research on Linguistic Complexity: Methodology, Theory and Ideology by Kilu Von Prince,Marcin Maria Kilarski Pdf

Author : John Mansfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501503306

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Murrinhpatha Morphology and Phonology by John Mansfield Pdf

Murrinhpatha is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in a region of tropical savannah and tidal inlets on the north coast of the continent. Some 3000 speakers live mostly in the towns of Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga, though they maintain close ties to their traditional lands, totems and spirit ancestors. Murrinhpatha word structure is highly complex, and quite distinct from the better-known Pama-Nyungan languages of central and southern Australia. Murrinhpatha is characterised by prolific compounding, clitic clusters, cumulative inflection, irregular allomorphy and phonological assimilation. This book provides a comprehensive account of these phenomena, giving particular attention to questions of morphological constituency, lexical storage, and whether there is really such thing as a ‘word’ unit.

Author : Nikolas Gisborne,Andrew Hippisley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198712329

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Defaults in Morphological Theory by Nikolas Gisborne,Andrew Hippisley Pdf

Chapters in this volume describe morphology using four different frameworks that have an architectural property in common: they all use defaults as a way of discovering and presenting systematicity in the least systematic component of grammar. These frameworks - Construction Morphology, Network Morphology, Paradigm-function Morphology, and Word Grammar - display key differences in how they constrain the use and scope of defaults, and in the morphological phenomena that they address. An introductory chapter presents an overview of defaults in linguistics and specifically in morphology. In subsequent chapters, key proponents of the four frameworks seek to answer questions about the role of defaults in the lexicon, including: Does a defaults-based account of language have implications for the architecture of the grammar, particularly the proposal that morphology is an autonomous component? How does a default differ from the canonical or prototypical in morphology? Do defaults have a psychological basis? And how do defaults help us understand language as a sign-based system that is flawed, where the one to one association of form and meaning breaks down in the morphology?

Author : TM Derico
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227906385

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Oral Tradition and Synoptic Verbal Agreement by TM Derico Pdf

Synoptic pericopae is a reliable indicator of literary borrowing by the Synoptic Evangelists. In Oral Tradition and Synoptic Verbal Agreement, T.M. Derico presents a critical assessment of that claim through a consideration of the most recent empirical evidence concerning the kinds and amounts of verbal agreement that can be produced among independent performances of oral traditions.

Author : Gary Libben,Gonia Jarema,Juhani Järvikivi,Eva Kehayia,Victor Kuperman
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832535820

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Words in the World by Gary Libben,Gonia Jarema,Juhani Järvikivi,Eva Kehayia,Victor Kuperman Pdf