
Current Issues in Morphological Theory
(Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency. Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 30. May 2012
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Hardback
268 pages
978-90-272-4840-4 (ISBN)
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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, Marton Andras Balo, Dunstan Brown, Gabriela Caballero, Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Roger Evans, Alice C. Harris, Laszlo Kalman, Katharina Korecky-Kroell, Sabine Laaha, Laura E. Lettner, Maria Mitsiaki, Peter Racz, Angela Ralli, Peter Rebrus, Alan K. Scott, and Miklos Toerkenczy.
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English
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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+ index
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665 gr
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978-90-272-4840-4 (9789027248404)
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Current Issues in Morphological Theory
(Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency. Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010
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Content
1. Foreword & acknowledgments; 2. Editors' introduction; 3. Part I. Regularity, irregularity, and analogy; 4. Arguments from Lovari loan-verb adaptation for an analogy-based analysis of verbal systems (by Balo, Marton Andras); 5. Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian (by Kalman, Laszlo); 6. Variation in the possessive allomorphy of Hungarian (by Racz, Peter); 7. Revisiting exocentricity in compounding: Evidence from Greek and Cypriot (by Ralli, Angela); 8. A constructionist account of the Modern Dutch adnominal genitive (by Scott, Alan K.); 9. Part II. The role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition; 10. Perspectives on morphological complexity (by Di Sciullo, Anna Maria); 11. Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: Validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency data (by Brown, Dunstan); 12. A working typology of multiple exponence (by Caballero, Gabriela); 13. Linguistic self-regulation: The case of Greek grammatical gender change in progress (by Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, Anna); 14. Suffix predictability and stem transparency in the acquisition of German noun plurals (by Laaha, Sabine); 15. Acquisition of German diminutive formation and compounding in a comparative perspective: Evidence for typology and the role of frequency (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 16. Index