Perspectives on Morphological Organization
Perspectives on Morphological Organization

Author: Ferenc Kiefer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-06-12

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9004342931

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This volume contains a selection of recent theoretical studies, deriving from presentations at the 16th International Morphology Meeting (Budapest, 2014), on the organization of morphological paradigms, paradigm complexity, and the inflectional marking of morphosyntactic relations, as well as on the application of information theory to the analysis of morphological systems aiming to achieve a clearer understanding of the close relation between notions of ‘morphological information’ based on ‘uncertainty’ and ‘uncertainty reduction’ and the error-driven structure of discriminative learning models.

Morphological Perspectives
Morphological Perspectives

Author: Matthew Baerman

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-04-17

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1474446027

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Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.

All Things Morphology
All Things Morphology

Author: Sedigheh Moradi

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-08-15

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 9027259747

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This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical points of view. These seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology. The chapters in this book elaborate on these basic themes, from the further exploration of paradigms, to studies involving words, stems, and affixes, to examinations of competition, inheritance, and defaults, to investigations of morphomes, to ways that morphology interacts with other parts of the language from phonology to sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. The editors and contributors dedicate this volume to Prof. Mark Aronoff for his profound influence on the field.

The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology
The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology

Author: Andrew Hippisley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 1442

ISBN-13: 1316712451

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The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.

Word and Paradigm Morphology
Word and Paradigm Morphology

Author: James P. Blevins

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 019959354X

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This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of these models is placed in the larger context of the intellectual lineage that extends from classical grammars to current information-theoretic and discriminative learning paradigms. The synthesis of this tradition outlined in the volume highlights leading ideas about the organization of morphological systems that are shared by word and paradigm approaches, along with strategies that have been developed to formalize these ideas, and ways in which the ideas have been validated by experimental methodologies. An extended comparison of contemporary word and paradigm variants isolates the central assumptions about morphological units and relations that distinguish implicational from realizational models and clarifies the relation of these models to morpheme-based accounts. Designed to be accessible to a wide readership, this book will serve both as an introduction to morphology and morphological theory from the word and paradigm perspective for non-specialists, and for morphologists, as a detailed account of the history of the ideas that underlie these models.

The Complexities of Morphology
The Complexities of Morphology

Author: Peter Arkadiev

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0192605518

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This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured. The book opens with a detailed introduction from the editors that critically assesses the foundational assumptions that inform contemporary approaches to morphological complexity. In the chapters that follow, the volume's expert contributors approach the topic from typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives; the concluding chapter offers an overview of these various approaches, with a focus on the minimum description length principle. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from both well-known languages such as Russian and lesser-studied languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.

Morphotactics
Morphotactics

Author: Gregory Stump

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-12-31

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1009168215

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Drawing on rich data sets, this guide to morphotactics reveals the principles by which a word form's parts are arranged.

Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition
Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition

Author: Andrea D. Sims

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1108479898

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Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the link between linguistic cognition and morphological diversity.

Word Knowledge and Word Usage
Word Knowledge and Word Usage

Author: Vito Pirrelli

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 3110432447

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Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word frequency distributions and information theoretical measures of word families, statistical correlations across psycho-linguistic and cognitive evidence, principles of machine learning and integrative brain models of word storage and processing. Main goal of the book will be to map out the landscape of future research in this area, to foster the development of interdisciplinary curricula and help single-domain specialists understand and address issues and questions as they are raised in other disciplines.

Word and Paradigm Morphology
Word and Paradigm Morphology

Author: James P. Blevins

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-10-13

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0191664952

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This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of these models is placed in the larger context of the intellectual lineage that extends from classical grammars to current information-theoretic and discriminative learning paradigms. The synthesis of this tradition outlined in the volume highlights leading ideas about the organization of morphological systems that are shared by word and paradigm approaches, along with strategies that have been developed to formalize these ideas, and ways in which the ideas have been validated by experimental methodologies. An extended comparison of contemporary word and paradigm variants isolates the central assumptions about morphological units and relations that distinguish implicational from realizational models and clarifies the relation of these models to morpheme-based accounts. Designed to be accessible to a wide readership, this book will serve both as an introduction to morphology and morphological theory from the word and paradigm perspective for non-specialists, and for morphologists, as a detailed account of the history of the ideas that underlie these models.