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Morphological autonomy and the long-term vitality of morphomes: stem-final consonant loss in Romance verbs and paradigmatic analogy
Morphologists of different backgrounds disagree with respect to the degree of autonomy of the morphological component of language from syntax and...
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Paradigmatic enhancement of stem vowels in regular English inflected verb forms
Many theories of word structure in linguistics and morphological processing in cognitive psychology are grounded in a compositional perspective on...
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Syntagmatic paradigms: learning correspondence from contiguity
Morphological paradigms are linked together by relations of paradigmatic predictability (implicative relations): when a speaker knows one form of a...
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The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda
This article explores the role of semantics in argument realization by providing a lexical semantic account of the contribution of applicative...
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Aspectual properties of Ukrainian verbal action nouns
This article presents research conducted on aspectual semantics in verbal nouns expressing action or state. The state of the art in the paradigmatic...
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Alignment of forms in Spanish verbal inflection: the gang poner, tener, venir, salir, valer as a window into the nature of paradigmatic analogy and predictability
The future and conditional forms of venir ‘come’, tener ‘have’ and poner ‘put’ were characterized in Old Spanish by various alternatives (e.g. verné , vendré...
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ParaDis: a family and paradigm model
The unification of inflectional and derivational morphology is an issue that is often debated but on which there is no consensus. On the other hand,...
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How morphological structure affects phonetic realisation in English compound nouns
Many studies have shown that syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects of morphological structure may have an impact on the phonetic realisation of...
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On the nature and organisation of morphological categories: verbal aspect through the lens of associative learning
The process by which awareness and/or knowledge of linguistic categories arises from exposure to patterns in data alone, known as emergence, is the...
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A discriminative information-theoretical analysis of the regularity gradient in inflectional morphology
Over the last decades, several independent lines of research in morphology have questioned the hypothesis of a direct correspondence between...
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VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability
This paper presents VeLeRo, an inflected lexicon of Standard Romanian which contains the full paradigm of 7297 verbs in phonological form. We explain...
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Semantic transparency and doublet formation: the case of Hebrew location nouns
This study examines the correlation between derivational paradigms and morphological variation and change. I will examine a case study of Hebrew...
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Psychological Aspects of Interpreting Violence: A Narrative from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
In this chapter, we analyze the working conditions and psychological impacts experienced by trained interpreters working on the ground in... -
Lying versus misleading, with language and pictures: the adverbial account
We intuitively make a distinction between lying and misleading . On the explanation of this phenomenon favored here—the adverbial account—the...
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Production of Estonian case-inflected nouns shows whole-word frequency and paradigmatic effects
Most psycholinguistic models of lexical processing assume that the comprehension and production of inflected forms is mediated by morphemic...
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Introduction
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is concerned with the description of sounds, structures, and meaning, in other words... -
Two cases of doubled pronouns in Amarasi
While the distribution and theoretical import of pronominal clitic doubling has been thoroughly investigated, instances of full doubling with...
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Policy Discourses in the EPA Programme
Chapter 3 proffers the conceptual underpinnings of the book, together with the data collection and... -
Our Projects and Data
This chapter describes our journey of the previous 10 years or so in relation to how we moved from drawing on and relying on written text informed... -
Polyfunctional argument markers in Ket
Polyfunctionality refers to cases in which the same formal material is systematically reused with different functions. It represents a type of complexi...