Aspects of the Theory of Morphology

Mel’čuk, Igor

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“…Secondly, wordformation meanings are accounted for by means of functional relations. In this respect, I have followed Pounder (2000) for the proposal of functions, which can be traced back to Mel'čuk's (1996Mel'čuk's ( , 2006 structural theory of morphology. On the analytical side, this piece of work has used a corpus of 3,356 adjectival predicates extracted from the Nerthus database with the aim of analyzing the derivation of Old English affixal adjectives, of which 3,356 can be found in Nerthus.…”

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“…In this respect, I draw on the foundations of a structural-functional theory of morphology as laid out by Martín Arista (2008Arista ( , 2009Arista ( , 2011aArista ( , 2012b concerning the concept of the word as a field of categories and functions at different levels and recursivity as a defining property of derivational morphology. This research is also based on the paradigmatic model of morphology put forward by Pounder (2000) as regards the notion of the derivational paradigm as comprised of a dynamic (morphological) and a static (lexical) part as well as the inventory of lexical functions, which ultimately dwells on Mel'čuk's (1996Mel'čuk's ( , 2006 structural morphology. Pounder's (2000) proposal has also the advantage of having been 9 applied to derived adjectives in 16th century German, which makes her theoretical model adequate for the description of Old English on areal (Western European) and genetic (West Germanic) grounds.…”

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“…These processes can be arranged in a hierarchy determined by the naturalness (frequency) of each process. In this way, Mel'čuk's (2006) proposes the hierarchy presented in Figure 3, thus considering compounding of a different semantic nature:…”

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Old English Adjectival Affixation: Structure and Function

Escarza

2013

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The aim of this article is to carry out a structural-functional analysis of the formation of Old English adjectives by means of affixation. By analysing the rules and operations that produce the 3,356 adjectives which the lexical database of Old English Nerthus (www.nerthusproject.com) turns out as affixal derivatives, a total of fourteen derivational functions have been identified. Additionally, the analysis yields conclusions concerning the relationship between affixes and derivational functions, the patterns of recategorization present in adjective formation and recursive word-formation.

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Old English Adjectival Affixation: Structure and Function

Escarza

2013

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“…Mel"čuk"s MTT or dependency-based topology models (Duchier and Debusmann 2001, Gerdes and Kahane 2001, 2006. In general, this type of grammar has no problem representing dependency structure, but must derive linear order by an additional topological model.…”

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Clitics in dependency morphology

Groß

2014

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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Clitics are challenging for many theories of grammar because they straddle syntax and morphology. In most theories, cliticization is considered a phrasal phenomenon: clitics are affix-like expressions that attach to whole phrases. Constituency-based grammars in particular struggle with the exact constituent structure of such expressions. This paper proposes a solution based on catena-based dependency morphology. This theory is an extension of catena-based dependency syntax. Following Authors et.al. (in press), a word or a combination of words in syntax that are continuous with respect to dominance form a catena. Likewise, a morph or a combination of morphs that is continuous with respect to dominance form a morph catena. Employing the concept of morph catena together with a hyphenation convention leads to a parsimonious and insightful understanding of cliticization.

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“…In (37a), (37c), and (37d), siʔi expresses a semantic predicate, something like 'be small' or 'be of reduced scale or intensity'; however, in (37b), siʔi expresses a more substantive concept, 'childhood' -that is, 'stage of human development during which a person is mentally and physically immature (and therefore small)'. While clearly not random, the exact semantic relationship between the two meanings of the root is not transparent or predictable, but rather is reminiscent of the relationship between homophonous pairs of English words such as hammer N vs. hammer V or cook N vs. cook V , which are generally held to be distinct lexical items related by a process of conversion (Mel'čuk 2006). Conversion posits the existence in the lexicon of homophonous but semantically-related words whereby each has a particular meaning associated with its use in a particular syntactic role or roles.…”

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Unidirectional flexibility and the noun–verb distinction in Lushootseed1

Beck¹

2013

Flexible Word Classes

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Recent work on the typology of parts-of-speech systems has shown that a significant parameter of variation in the organization of the lexicon concerns the number of open or major word classes that are recognized in a language. While languages with the familiar Indo-European system distinguish four major "contentive" classes (noun, verb, adjective, and adverb), it is not uncommon for languages to distinguish fewer. In many such cases, a language with a reduced parts-of-speech inventory conflates two or more major classes, creating a flexible part of speech that fills a variety of syntactic roles. One of the most contentious issues that falls out from this observation is whether or not it is possible for a language to conflate all of the major lexical classes, grouping all of its contentive lexical items into a single, maximally flexible class of words (opposed only by the minor, grammatical classes) and thereby neutralizing the distinction between nouns and verbs. Claims for the absence of a noun-verb distinction have been advanced for a number of languages and are discussed most extensively for languages from the Salishan, Polynesian, and Munda families. Examining these cases reveals that they fall into two general types which I will refer to in this paper, loosely following Evans and Osada (2005), as precategorial and omnipredicative. The precategorial type of language, as represented by languages of the Munda and Polynesian families, has received the most attention in the recent literature (e.g., Broschart 1991; Croft 2000; Vonen 2000; Hengeveld and Rijkhoff 2005); the omnipredicative type has not been discussed to the same extent, although languages of this kind, particularly those belonging to the Salishan family, are frequently offered uncritically as examples of languages that lack a distinction between nouns and verbs.In this paper, I will present data from the Salishan language Lushootseed 1 which demonstrates that, while the noun-verb distinction is neutralized in syntactic predicate position, it is still relevant for words used as syntactic arguments, giving us a pattern that will be referred to here as unidirectional flexibility. Unidirectional flexibility as the term is used here is intended to complement the notion of "bidirectional flexibility" put forward by Evans and Osada (2005) as a criterion for determining whether or not a language has genuinely neutralized a part-of-speech distinction. For Evans and Osada, a particular part of speech is considered to be bidirectionally flexible if all of its members can occupy the syntactic * The author would like to thank Paulette Levy and Igor Mel'čuk for helping him refine the ideas behind this paper, as well as Jan Rijkhoff, Eva van Lier, and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful critiques and suggestions. My thanks also to the late Thom Hess for providing me with the data and understanding of Lushootseed that lie behind this paper. None of the above bear any responsibility for my errors. 1 Lushootseed is a member of the Central Coast Salish branc...

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Aspects of the Theory of Morphology

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Old English Adjectival Affixation: Structure and Function

Old English Adjectival Affixation: Structure and Function

Clitics in dependency morphology

Unidirectional flexibility and the noun–verb distinction in Lushootseed1

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