Kiefer / Ladányi / Siptár Current Issues in Morphological Theory

(Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency. Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13–16 May 2010
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-7383-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 322, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The selection of papers presented here addresses problems of language use in one or another sense, covering issues of regularity, irregularity and analogy, as well as the role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition. The languages discussed include Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Lovari (Romani) and Russian. The contributors are Anna Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, Mario Andreou, Márton András Baló, Dunstan Brown, Gabriela Caballero, Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Roger Evans, Alice C. Harris, László Kálmán, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabine Laaha, Laura E. Lettner, Maria Mitsiaki, Péter Rácz, Angela Ralli, Péter Rebrus, Alan K. Scott, and Miklós Törkenczy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kiefer, Ferenc

Ladányi, Mária

Siptár, Péter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword & acknowledgments

Editors’ introduction

Part I. Regularity, irregularity, and analogy

Arguments from Lovari loan-verb adaptation for an analogy-based analysis of verbal systems
Márton András Baló

Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian
László Kálmán, Péter Rebrus and Miklós Törkenczy

Variation in the possessive allomorphy of Hungarian
Péter Rácz and Péter Rebrus

Revisiting exocentricity in compounding: Evidence from Greek and Cypriot*
Angela Ralli and Marios Andreou

A constructionist account of the Modern Dutch adnominal genitive*
Alan K. Scott

Part II. The role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition

Perspectives on morphological complexity*
Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: Validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency data*
Dunstan Brown and Roger Evans

A working typology of multiple exponence*
Gabriela Caballero and Alice C. Harris

Linguistic self-regulation: The case of Greek grammatical gender change in progress*
Anna Anastassiadis-Syméonidis and Maria Mitsiaki

Suffix predictability and stem transparency in the acquisition of German noun plurals*
Sabine Laaha and Wolfgang U. Dressler

Acquisition of German diminutive formation and compounding in a comparative perspective: Evidence for typology and the role of frequency
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Laura E. Lettner and Katharina Korecky-Kröll

Index