Making sense of grammatical variation in Norwegian

Enger, Hans-Olav; Spilling, Eivor Finset; Sameien, Marianne Brodahl

doi:10.1075/slcs.203.08sam

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“…Drawing onNilsen (2012),Sameien et al (2018) show that the distinction 'weak vs. strong' in Norwegian has some semantic motivation (in addition to the well-known phonological motivation), but they do not claim that the motivation is complete; the distinction remains morphomic, in that sense.…”

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In defence of morphomic analyses

Enger

2019

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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In defence of morphomic analyses There has been some debate over the notion of 'morphomes', i.e. patterns of inflection without complete motivation outside of morphology. Morphomes are evidence for some autonomy of morphology. It has been claimed that there is "very little evidence for change which operates on morphology alone", in other words that morphology does not change independently-and this has been used against the 'morphomic' approach. This paper presents evidence of inflection classes arising or being 'strengthened' in Scandinavian, classes that do not have any function outside of morphology. This is evidence of change, operating on morphology alone. One of the case studies also shows affixes being changed in order to align better with non-affixal inflection. This goes against the claim that non-affixal inflection be epiphenomenal. The paper also counters some other arguments against the morphomic approach. Notably, the "diagnostic problem" suggested for morphomes is hardly more severe than that involved in many other approaches to morphology. The paper also shows a (perhaps unexpected) convergence between the morphomic approach and strands of functionalism. While morphomic patterns may seem redundant and local, this is not unique to them. Many generalisations made by language users may seem redundant and local to linguists.

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In defence of morphomic analyses

Enger

2019

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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Thoughts on morphomes, on a Scandinavian background

Enger

2019

Studies in Language Companion Series

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Hochfrequenz und Irregularität – zur Stammallomorphie bei (a)frz. al(l)er/(a)it. andare, (a)frz. venir/(a)it. venire und afrz. ester/(a)it. stare

Heinemann

2021

Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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Normally, verbs showing allomorphy due to phonological changes become more regular over time through intraparadigmatic analogy. There are verbs, though, such as auxiliaries, modals or basic verbs of movement which stay irregular, obviously due to their extremely high token frequency. Especially studies with reference to Germanic languages show that irregularity often relates to a development leading to a clear(er) distinction of single forms within a paradigm. The article examines the applicability of the concept of relevance developped by Bybee (1985), the significance of token frequency and other factors discussed in studies anchored in the usage based approach with regard to the French and Italian verbs aller/andare, venir/venire and – for Old French – ester (cf. the suppletive paradigm of être) and Italian stare, considering the development from Latin to modern French and Italian.

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Making sense of grammatical variation in Norwegian

Cited by 3 publications

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In defence of morphomic analyses

In defence of morphomic analyses

Thoughts on morphomes, on a Scandinavian background

Hochfrequenz und Irregularität – zur Stammallomorphie bei (a)frz. al(l)er/(a)it. andare, (a)frz. venir/(a)it. venire und afrz. ester/(a)it. stare

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