Network Morphology

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ISBN: 9781107005747 | 1107005744
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Copyright: 3/19/2012

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Morphology is particularly challenging, because it is pervaded by irregularity and idiosyncrasy. This book is a study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as 'Network Morphology'. It describes the systems of rules which determine the structure of words by construing irregularity as a matter of degree, using examples from a diverse range of languages and phenomena to illustrate. Many languages share common word building strategies and many diverge in interesting ways. These strategies can be understood by distinguishing different notions of 'default'. The Network Morphology philosophy promotes the use of computational implementation to check theories. The accompanying website provides the computer coded version of the Network Morphology model of word structure for readers to test, customize and develop. This book will be a valuable contribution to the fields of linguistic typology and morphology and will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students in these areas.

List of tables	p. xiii
List of figures	p. xiv
Preface	p. xv
Abbreviations and Russian transcription system used	p. xviii
Options in constructing a morphological framework	p. 1
Locating generalizations	p. 1
Paradigmatic relations	p. 4
Semi-regularity	p. 5
Options and chapter outline	p. 6
Object of inquiry: lexeme rather than morpheme	p. 6
Radical agglutination	p. 7
Morphemes and word syntax	p. 10
Summary of object-of-inquiry option	p. 12
Morphological domain: autonomous rather than part of a seamless web	p. 13
Autonomous morphology and function/form dissociations	p. 13
Seamless-web morphology and Distributed Morphology	p. 19
Some challenges for Distributed Morphology's seamless web	p. 25
Concluding autonomous over seamless-web morphology	p. 29
Generalization as default inheritance	p. 30
Default rather than mandatory inheritance	p. 33
Multiple inheritance and orthogonality rather than single inheritance	p. 35
Inflection versus derivation and submodularity	p. 37
Morphological formalization	p. 41
Summary of Network Morphology options and book outline	p. 41
A framework for morphological defaults	p. 44
Introduction	p. 44
Models and analyses of lexemes	p. 45
Lexemes as part of a network	p. 51
Inheritance relations	p. 52
Hierarchy relations	p. 54
Attribute ordering	p. 57
Flexible paradigm signatures	p. 64
Network relations	p. 69
Morphology as a network	p. 70
Local and global context	p. 80
Evaluable paths	p. 82
Defaults	p. 83
Path extension and underspecification	p. 84
Exceptional and normal case defaults	p. 86
Defaults and productivity	p. 106
The default relationship between syntax and morphology	p. 107
Non-autonomy	p. 107
Morphosyntactic feature slippages	p. 108
Autonomous morphological features	p. 109
Conclusion	p. 110
Inflectional classes	p. 111
Introduction	p. 111
Inflectional classes within the wider typological space	p. 113
Example 1: No morphological hierarchy required	p. 118
Example 2: Morphological hierarchy required	p. 122
Inheritance between the lexemic and morphological hierarchies	p. 139
Justifying morphological hierarchies	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 149
Syncretism	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Definitions	p. 152
Syncretism by default inference	p. 156
Syncretism by referral	p. 167
Case study for generalized referrals: Dalabon verbal morphology	p. 170
The Dalabon paradigm without referrals	p. 175
Relating prefixes and clitics	p. 177
Adding referrals	p. 178
Summary	p. 180
Combining stem indexing and default inference	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 184
Morphological mismatch and extended deponency	p. 186
Introduction	p. 186
Extended deponency as defaults-based rule interaction	p. 188
The hierarchical characterization of deponency	p. 189
The Network Morphology account of Latin verb inflection	p. 194
Non-regulars excluding deponents	p. 199
Classical deponency	p. 201
Mismatch, Property 1: overriding the first-order default	p. 202
Lack of full participation, Property 2: overriding the second-order default	p. 203
Semi-deponents, Property 3: overriding the second- and third-order defaults	p. 205
'Form' defaults and defectiveness, Properties 4 and 5	p. 208
Extended deponency and Archi nouns	p. 209
The Network Morphology account of Archi nouns	p. 209
Integrating deponent lexical entries	p. 213
Is Latin deponency really morphological mismatch?	p. 217
Concluding remarks	p. 219
Defaults and paradigmatic restructuring: diachronic deponency	p. 221
Introduction	p. 221
Diachronic deponency as paradigmatic restructuring	p. 222
virtual paradigms and inheritance from the morphological hierarchy	p. 226
The Network Morphology account of diachronic deponency	p. 231
Activation of deponents	p. 234
Passivation of deponents	p. 238
Questions about virtual paradigms	p. 243
Neo-deponents and virtual paradigms	p. 244
Variation and virtual paradigms	p. 245
Deponency in Greek	p. 245
Before deponency	p. 246
Concluding remarks	p. 247
Derivation	p. 249
Introduction	p. 249
Derivation as lexeme-formation	p. 251
Inheritance-based derivational relatedness	p. 258
Conversion	p. 262
Transposition	p. 263
Category-preserving derivation	p. 265
Resolving affix competition	p. 269
Syntactic conditions	p. 271
Formal conditions	p. 272
Semantic conditions	p. 275
Productivity	p. 277
Concluding remarks on derivational morphology in Network Morphology	p. 281
Conclusion	p. 283
Taking stock	p. 283
Autonomous morphology	p. 283
Rules and defaults in morphology	p. 285
Consequences	p. 286
Importance of implementation for morphological theory	p. 287
Notes	p. 289
References	p. 299
Index of languages	p. 314
Index of names	p. 316
Index of subjects	p. 319
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