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Current issues in morphological theory : (ir)regularity, analogy and frequency : selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010 /

The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13-16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The selection of papers presented here addresses problems of langu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Morphology Meeting Budapest, Hungary
Otros Autores: Kiefer, Ferenc, Ladányi, Mária, Siptár, Péter
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 322.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CURRENT ISSUES IN MORPHOLOGICAL THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword & acknowledgments; Editors' introduction; 1. General introduction; 2. Overview; 2.1 Regularity, irregularity, and analogy; 2.2 The role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition; 3. (Ir)regularity and analogy; 4. Frequency; 5. Concluding remarks; References; PART I Regularity, irregularity, and analogy; Arguments from Lovari loan-verb adaptation for an analogy-based analysis of verbal systems; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. A short overview of analogy-based approaches3. Lovari verbal paradigms; 4. Verbal derivation; 4.1 Transitive derivational markers; 4.2 Intransitive derivational markers; 5. Loan-verb adaptation; 6. Summary; References; Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian; 1. Plan; 2. Hungarian linking vowels; 2.1 Definition; 2.2 Complexities; 2.3 Technical difficulties; 3. An analogy-based approach; 4. Variation with linking vowels; 4.1 Variation related to phonotactics; 4.1.1 The accusative of sibilant-final nouns; 4.1.2 The accusative of [z]-final nouns; 4.2 Category-related variation.
  • 4.2.1 Loan adjectives4.2.2 Nouns lexicalized as adjectives; 4.2.3 Adjectives with vowel-final suffixes; 5. Summary; References; Variation in the possessive allomorphy of Hungarian; 1. Introduction; 2. The Hungarian possessive; 2.1 The possessive paradigm; 2.2 Conditions on the realization of the glide; 2.2.1 Near-categorical effects; 2.2.2 Variable effects; 3. Analogy in the possessive; 3.1 Nouns and verbs; 3.2 A further example; 4. Conclusions; References; Revisiting exocentricity in compounding; 1. Problems in defining an exocentric compound; 2. Headedness and exocentric compounds.
  • 3. The structure of exocentric compounds: assumptions and claims4. Conclusions; References; A constructionist account of the Modern Dutch adnominal genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. The Dutch genitive in use; 4. Construction Morphology and language change; 5. A Construction Morphology account of the adnominal genitive; 6. Concluding remarks; References; The Role of Frequency in Morphological Complexity, Morphological Change and Language Acquisition; Perspectives on morphological complexity; 1. Internal and external complexity; 2. Information theory and complexity.
  • 3. Measuring E-complexity4. Generative grammar and complexity; 4.1 Measuring I-complexity; 4.1.1 Derivations; 4.2 Experimental results; 4.2.1 Prefixed verbs; 4.2.2 Compounds; 4.3 Summary; 5. Factors reducing complexity; 6. Discussion; References; Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Inflectional classes; 1.2 Principal parts and defaults; 1.3 Stress and inflectional class; 1.4 Related work; 2. Data; 2.1 The data sets; 2.2 Data sets with and without stress; 2.3 Gold standard and baseline data sets; 3. Method; 3.1 Compression-based learning. 3.2 Solution stability.