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Author International Morphology Meeting (14th : 2010 : Budapest, Hungary)

Title Current issues in morphological theory : (ir)regularity, analogy and frequency : selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010 / edited by Ferenc Kiefer, Mária Ladányi, Péter Siptár
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

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Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 322
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 322.
Contents 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
Summary 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 language use in one or another sense, covering issues of regularity, irregularity and analogy, as well as the role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition. The languages discussed include Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Lovari (Romani) and Russian. The con
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Kiefer, Ferenc.
Ladányi, Mária.
Siptár, Péter.
LC no. 2012012723
ISBN 9789027273833
9027273839
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9781280394379
9027248400
9789027248404
9786613572295
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