Word and paradigm morphology / James P. Blevins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blevins, James P., author.

Series:

Oxford linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word formation.

Physical Description:

249 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Part I Theclassicalwp Model

1 Revival of the WP model 3

1.1 From segmentation to classification 3

1.2 The ancient model and its adaptations 6

1.3 Word-based morphology 9

1.3.1 The 'item and pattern model 11

1.3.2 Morphological units and relations 14

1.4 Overview 17

2 The Post-Bloomfieldian legacy 19

2.1 Bloomfieldian analysis 20

2.1.1 Bloomfieldian semiotics 22

2.1.2 Bloomfieldian exegesis 23

2.2 The Concatenative (1A) model 24

2.2.1 Problems of segmentation 26

2.2.2 Special morphs 29

2.2.3 Classification 31

2.2.4 'An agglutinating system gone wrong' 33

2.3 The Operational (TP) model 36

2.4 The Decade of the Morpheme 40

2.4.1 'A remarkable tribute to the inertia of ideas' 42

2.4.2 Words, paradigms and analogy 45

3 Words 46

3.1 The psychological status of words 46

3.1.1 Experimental evidence 48

3.1.2 A statistical inferencing engine 50

3.1.3 Word structure 51

3.1.4 Exponence relations 52

3.2 Types of 'words' 57

3.2.1 Grammatical and phonological words 58

3.2.2 Lexemes and lemmas 61

3.2.3 Paradigms and families 63

3.3 Summary 67

4 Paradigms 69

4.1 Recurrence and redundancy 70

4.1.1 Paradigmatic allomorphy 71

4.1.2 Constructional or 'gestalt' exponence 73

4.2 Paradigm structure 74

4.3 Principal parts 79

4.3.1 Paradigm uniformity and cohesion 81

4.3.2 Implicational structure of inflectional series 85

4.3.3 Contrastive distribution 90

4.4 Pedagogical idealizations 92

5 Analogy 97

5.1 No segmentation without representation? 100

5.2 Morphomic stem syncretism 103

5.2.1 Priscianic deduction 106

5.2.2 Paradigmatic morphomics 108

5.2.3 Word-based analogy 109

5.3 Schematization and foundation 112

Part II Contemporary WP Models

6 Realizational models 119

6.1 The inflectional component of a WP grammar 119

6.2 Realization rules 122

6.2.1 Sequential and cumulative exponence in Finnish 122

6.2.2 Rules of exponence 124

6.2.3 Rules of referral 126

6.2.4 Referral and directionality 132

6.3 Rule interaction 134

6.3.1 Intrinsic and extrinsic ordering 136

6.3.2 Rule blocks and disjunctive ordering 139

6.3.3 Generalization and discrimination 144

6.3.4 Block order and the status of portmanteaux 146

6.3.5 Summary 149

6.4 Alternative and extended formalisms 150

6.4.1 Rules in A-Morphous and Realizational Pair Morphology 150

6.4.2 Separationist morphology and lexical insertion 151

6.4.3 Rules in Paradigm Function Morphology 152

6.5 Realization and structure 157

6.5.1 Indexical morphology 157

6.5.2 Neo-Saussurean reahzationahsm 160

7 Implicational models 163

7.1 Variation as uncertainty 164

7.1.1 Syntagmatic uncertainty 165

7.1.2 From word to paradigm 168

7.2 Information-theoretic WP 171

7.2.1 Implicational relations 174

7.2.2 The Low Conditional Entropy Conjecture 178

7.2.3 Cohesion, diagnosticity and validity 181

7.3 Implicational economy 184

7.3.1 Paradigm economy 185

7.3.2 Descriptive and entropie economy 191

7.3.3 From exemplars to discriminative contrasts 195

8 Morphology as an adaptive discriminative system 197

8.1 A 'learning-based' approach 1-97

8.2 The Zipfian Paradigm Cell Filling Problem 199

8.2.1 Discriminative irregularity 201

8.2.2 Knowledge and uncertainty 202

8.2.3 The discriminative perspective 204

8.3 Refurbishing the structuralist foundations 206

8.3.1 Discriminative and categorical variation 208

8.3.2 The logic of discrimination 210

8.3.3 Contextual discrimination 211

8.3.4 Learning without over generalization 212

8.3.5 Pedagogical overextraction 214

8.4 Discriminative tagmemics 215

8.4.1 Contrastive arrangements 215

8.4.2 Distribution and meaning 216

8.4.3 Form and distribution 219

8.5 Morphological typology 220

8.5.1 Typological and theoretical overfit 221

8.5.2 The role of prediction 224

8.6 Discriminative abstraction 225.

Notes:

Series from dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-245) and index.

ISBN:

019959354X

9780199593545

0199593558

9780199593552

OCLC:

946461063