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Irregular Verb Morphology: Theoretical Accounts
This chapter discusses various theoretical approaches to both English and German irregular verb morphology. It outlines commonalities and differences...
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Nonunitary structure of unergative verbs in Georgian
Traditionally defined as intransitive activity denoting verbs with agent argument, unergative predicates can be structured differently within the...
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Vowel length in Friulian verbs: a case of mora affixation
This paper deals with vowel length in Friulian, and shows that this is sometimes phonologically predictable and sometimes an instance of mora...
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Integration of Cognate Loan Verbs in Contact Between Closely Related Languages Effecting Valency Changes
In contact between closely related languages like Old Norse (ON) and Old English (OE), higher similarity between units of the languages in contact...
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Classification of Verbs
Among other possible criteria, verbs are classified according to their valency. This is recognized in traditional grammar, which refers to verbs as...
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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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Irregular Verb Morphology: L1 and L2 Cognitive Accounts
This chapter contextualises associative approaches to L1 and L2 verb morphology within the two major camps competing in the past tense debate. After...
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Derivational timing of morphomes: canonicity and rule ordering in the Armenian aorist stem
Cross-linguistically, morphomes are empirically robust but there are few well-studied cases outside of Romance. We analyze the distribution of...
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Decomposition of Inflected Verbs
We apply an analyticalMethods methodDecomposition to decompose inflected verbsVerb in Bengali. We treat these verbsVerb as autonomous and isolated...
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Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems
Morphophonological derivations are often simultaneously isomorphic to both surface morphotactics, cyclic phonology, and to abstract morphosemantic...
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VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective
This paper reports on the compilation and quantitative analysis of VeLePa, an inflected lexicon containing paradigms of 216 Central Pame verbs and a...
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MorphoGen: Full Inflection Generation Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Sub-word level alternations during inflection (apophonies) are an common linguistic phenomenon present in morphologically-rich languages, like...
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The Final Glottal Stop of the Kuṛux Verb Bases
Kur ̣ux has many verb bases ending in ʔ. While y corresponds to ʔ in some cognate Malto verb bases, such as Kr ̣x. ciʔ- vs. Mlt. ciy- ‘give’ and...
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Action Nouns in Zenaga Berber of Mauritania
The so-called “action” nouns constitute a subcategory of nominals. Any non-passive verb potentially has in Berber an action noun that denotes the...
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Flexemes in theory and in practice
This paper provides an in-depth investigation of the possibility of systematically using flexemes – i.e., lexical units characterized in terms of...
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Do learners need semantics to spell syntactic markers? Plural spellings in real vs. pseudowords in a French L2 setting
Inaudible syntactic markers are especially difficult to spell. This paper examines how 455 fourth graders spell silent French plural markers in a...
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A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin
This paper aims to propose a syntactic approach to derive the three reduplication patterns for disyllabic words in Mandarin: the ABAB verbs, the AABB...
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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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Analogy
In this chapter, we look at a common explanation for morphological change: analogy, or the extension of a pattern from one (set of) words to another....
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The Empirical Study
This chapter presents two psycholinguistic experiments exploring irregular verb morphology in the mental lexicon of young German-speaking learners of...