Perspectives on Morphological Organization : Data and Analyses.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory Series ; v.10 .
- Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1 Polyfunctionality and the Variety of Inflectional Exponence Relations -- 2 Verb Morphology and Conjugation Classes in Dunan (Yonaguni) -- 3 Inflection Classes in Transitional Libyan Arabic (TLA) -- 4 Person Agreement on Converbs in Udmurt -- 5 Paradigm Leveling: The Decay of Consonant Alternations in Russian -- 6 The Zipfian Paradigm Cell Filling Problem -- 7 Paradigm Realization and the Lexicon -- 8 The Possible Role of Entropy in Processing Argument Dependencies in Hungarian -- 9 A Functional Theory of Gender Paradigms -- Index.
This volume contains a selection of recent theoretical studies on the organization of morphological paradigms, and the application of information theory and discriminative learning models to the analysis of morphological systems.