Morphological typology : from word to paradigm / Gregory Stump and Raphael A. Finkel, University of Kentucky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stump, Gregory T. (Gregory Thomas), 1954- author.

Finkel, Raphael A., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 138.

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 138

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this radically new approach to morphological typology, the authors set out new and explicit methods for the typological classification of languages. Drawing on evidence from a diverse range of languages including Chinantec, Dakota, French, Fur, Icelandic, Ngiti and Sanskrit, the authors propose innovative ways of measuring inflectional complexity. Designed to engage graduate students and academic researchers, the book presents opportunities for further investigation. The authors' data sets and the computational tool that they constructed for their analysis are available online, allowing readers to employ them in their own research. Readers can access the online computational tool through www.cambridge.org/stump_finkel.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Principal parts; 1.1 The traditional notion of principal parts; 1.2 Principal parts in linguistic theory and in language typology; 1.2.1 Principal parts and the lexicon; 1.2.2 Principal parts in language typology; 1.3. Some preliminary assumptions; 1.3.1 If two lexemes belong to the same syntactic category but to contrasting ICs, their principal-part sets may be different.; 1.3.2 An inflectional system's principal parts may be chosen according to one of three schemes; The static scheme for optimal principal-part sets

The adaptive scheme for optimal principal-part setsThe dynamic scheme for optimal principal-part sets; 1.3.3 There may be more than one optimal principal-part analysis for the lexemes in a given inflectional system; 2 Plats; 2.1 Plats and their parts; 2.1.1 Redundant MPSs; 2.1.2 Kinds of exponences; 2.1.3 Grammatical information; 2.1.4 Omitted lexemes; 2.2 The representation issue; 3 A typology of principal-part systems; 3.1 A typology of principal-part systems; 3.2 Criterion A: How many principal parts are needed to determine a lexeme's IC membership?

3.3 Criterion B: How many dynamic principal parts are needed to determine a given cell in a lexeme's realized paradigm?3.4 Criterion C: To what extent are particular realized cells favored as optimal static principal parts?; 3.5 Summary; 4 Inflection-class transparency; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Conjugation classes in Fur; 4.3 Deviations from maximal transparency in Fur verb paradigms; 4.4 A first measure of IC transparency: IC predictability; 4.5 A fourth criterion of IC transparency; 4.6 A second measure of IC transparency: cell predictability; 4.7 IC transparency and the No-Blur Principle

4.8 IC transparency as a dimension of typological variation4.9 IC predictability, cell predictability, and entropy as measures of an inflection-class system's complexity; 4.10 Conclusions; 4.11 Appendix; 5 Grammatically enhanced plats; 5.1 Sanskrit declension; 5.2 Measuring the IC complexity of the hearer-oriented declensional plat; 5.2.1 The Sanskrit plat's optimal principal-part numbers; 5.2.2 The Sanskrit plat's cell predictor numbers; 5.2.3 Alternative analyses for ICs in the Sanskrit plat; 5.2.4 IC predictability and cell predictability in the Sanskrit plat; 5.2.5 Cell predictiveness

5.3 Grammatical disambiguation of distinguishers in the Sanskrit declensional plat5.3.1 Disambiguation by means of gender information; 5.3.2 Disambiguation by means of stem demarcation; 5.4 The effects of enhancing principal parts with gender specifications and/or stem demarcations; 5.4.1 Optimal principal-part numbers; 5.4.2 Cell predictor numbers; 5.4.3 Alternative analyses; 5.4.4 IC predictability and cell predictability; 5.4.5 Cell predictiveness; 5.5 Conclusions; 6 Impostors and heteroclites; 6.1 Impostors and plat construction; 6.2 Heteroclites and plat construction

7 Stems as principal parts

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-24158-8

1-139-89127-8

1-316-60477-2

1-139-24886-3

1-107-24862-0

1-107-25111-7

1-107-24779-9

1-107-25028-5

1-107-24945-7

OCLC:

846495341