Analogy in grammar : form and acquisition / edited by James P. Blevins and Juliette Blevins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blevins, James P.

Blevins, Juliette.

Series:

Oxford linguistics Analogy in grammar

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analogy (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in grammar. What kinds of patterns do speakers select as the basis for analogical extension? What types of items are particularly susceptible or resistant to analogical pressures? At what levels do analogical processes operate and how do processes interact? What formal mechanisms areappropriate for modelling analogy? The novel synthesis of typological, theoretical, computational, and developmental par

Contents:

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Analogy in grammar; Part I. Typology and Complexity; 2. Principal parts and degrees of paradigmatic transparency; 3. Parts and wholes: Implicative patterns in inflectional paradigms; 4. Resolving pattern conflict: Variation and selection in phonology and morphology; Part II. Learning; 5. The relation between linguistic analogies and lexical categories; 6. The role of analogy for compound words; 7. Morphological analogy: Only a beginning; Part III. Modeling Analogy

8. Expanding Analogical Modeling into a general theory of language prediction9. Modeling analogy as probabilistic grammar; 10. Words and paradigms bit by bit: An information-theoretic approach to the processing of inflection and derivation; References; Index; NAMES; A; B; C; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; P; S; T; SUBJECTS; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; LANGUAGES; A; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; K; L; N; P; R; S; T; U; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612365942

1-282-36594-0

0-19-156960-7

OCLC:

463184076