Variation and Change in Morphology

Name: Variation and Change in Morphology | Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008
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Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008

Franz Rainer Wolfgang U. Dressler Dieter Kastovsky Hans Christian Luschützky(Editor)

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Variation and Change in Morphology
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Foreword & acknowledgements
Editors' introduction
1. What the volume is not about
2. Overview
3. Kinds of variation
4. Causes for variation and change
5. Variation and output-orientation
6. Variation, change and economy
References
Affixation vs. conversion
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Competing processes
3.1 -En suffixation vs. conversion
3.2 Phonological
3.3 Semantic
3.4 Historical
3.5 Current usage
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
References
The -alis/-aris allomorphy revisited
1. Introduction
2. The incidence of liquids in general
3. Cooccurrence constraints on l
3.1 The -alis/-aris allomorphy: Data
3.2 The phonology of the -alis/-aris allomorphy
3.3 Adjectives in -ilis/ile
3.4 Non-coronal C + V + l suffixes
3.5 Diminutives
4. Cooccurrence constraints on r
4.1 or/-oris and -ur/-uris
4.2 Other derivational r-suffixes
4.3 Inflectional endings with r
4.4 r in pre-stem morphology
5. Conclusion
References
French property nouns based on toponyms or ethnic adjectives
1. Introduction
2. The problem
2.1 Adjective-based -ité EPNs
2.2 EPNs directly formed on toponyms
3. The data
3.1. Methodology
3.2 Three EPN base types
3.3 Heterogeneous quantitative results
4. The analysis
4.1. Base variation: not a matter of meaning
4.2 Base variation: A matter of form
4.2.1 Avoidance strategies
4.2.2 Preference strategies
4.2.3 Combining strategies
4.3 Experiment: Student survey
5. Conclusion
References
Morphological variation in the construction of French names for inhabitants
1. Introduction
1.1 Basic assumptions
1.2 Aims of the paper
2. Description of the derivation: Structure
2.1 Stem modification
2.2 Suffixation
2.3 Summary
3. Theoretical discussion
3.1. Argumentation for the output orientation
3.2 Theoretical aspects: graduality, surface factors
4. Conclusion
References
The invisible hand of grammaticalization
1. Introduction
2. Form/meaning mismatches in morphology
3. The ge-prefix and the perfect periphrasis
4. The IPP and the expansion of the perfect periphrasis in MHG
5. Conclusion
References
Paradigmatic realignment and morphological change
1. Introduction
2. Paradigmatic reorganization
3. Network Morphology and separationism
4. Deponency and paradigm linkage in Network Morphology
5. Diachronic deponency in Network Morphology
5.1 Activation of deponents
5.2 Passivation of deponents
5.3 Realignment and virtual paradigms
5.3.1 Neo-deponents and virtual paradigms
5.3.2 Variation and virtual paradigms
6. Concluding remarks
References
Areal-typological aspects of word-formation
1. Introduction
2. Aktionsart-formation
3. Conspicuous similarities in the aktionsart-systems in the Sprachbund
3.1 Formal similarities in the make-up of certain complex verbs
3.2 Some differences in the aktionsart-systems of the Sprachbund
4. Aktionsarten in Yiddish, Hungarian and Romani
4.1 Aktionsarten in Yiddish
4.2 Hungarian aktionsarten
4.3 Romani preverbs
4.3.1 Hungarian contact
4.3.2 Slavic contact
4.3.3 German contact
5. Outside of the Sprachbund
6. Conclusion
References
Variation and change in morphology and syntax
1. Introduction
2. Romance object agreement in typological perspective
2.1. Controller and conditions
2.2 Domain
2.3 Target and features
2.4 Intermediate summary
3. Variation and change in the morphology and syntax of Romance object agreement
3.1 Loss of object agreement despite preservation of participial inflection
3.2 Mutually independent changes in morphology and syntax
3.3 Morphosyntactic and morphological features interacting with syntactic change
3.4 Preservation of the agreement rule despite (partial) loss of participial inflection
4. An example of non-morphology-free syntax
5. Conclusion
References
Optional multiple plural marking in Maay
1. Introduction
2. Optional ME in Maay
3. An OCM analysis
4. Conclusion
References
Lettered words
1. Introduction
2. Lettered words as innovations in Chinese morphology
2.1 Bypassing traditional borrowing processes
2.2 Resolving the mismatch
2.3 Congruence between English morphemes and Chinese Zì
2.4 Compounds are integrated as hybrid words
3. Corpus study of lettered words
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Results
3.3 Discussion
4. Conclusions
References
Word creation
1. Introduction
2. The linguistic status of word creation
2.1 Creative techniques vs. regular rules or models of word formation
2.2 Creative techniques vs. similar unintentional operations
3. Communicative functions of word creation
4. A typology of creative techniques
4.1 Preliminary remarks
4.2 The typology
4.2.1 Word creation with and without linguistic input
4.2.2 Modification of an existing source form vs. extragrammatical word formation
4.2.3 Shortening
4.2.4 Alienation
4.2.5 Extragrammatical derivation
4.2.6 Blending
5. Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Pleonastic morphology dies hard
1. Introduction to morphological conservatism
2. Synchronic facts of standard Lithuanian
2.1 Definiteness marking
2.2 Beyond adjectives
2.3 Problems to be solved
2.3.1 Against clitics
2.3.2 Economy and naturalness
3. Glimpses of the past
4. Variation
4.1 The Lithuanian dialect cluster
4.2 North of the border
5. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Index of languages and terms
Index of subjects and terms
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