Covert systematicity in a distributionally complex system
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Baerman, Matthew (2014) Covert systematicity in a distributionally complex system Journal of Linguistics, 50 (1). pp. 1-47.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226713000030
Abstract
Current thinking on inflection classes views them as organized networks rather than random assemblages of allomorphs (Carstairs-McCarthy 1994, Malouf & Ackerman 2010, Müller 2007), but we still find systems which appear to lack any visible implicative structure. A particularly striking example comes from Võro (a variety of South Estonian). Its system of verbal inflectional suffixes is formally simple but distributionally complex: although there are never more than three allomorphs in competition, nearly two dozen inflectional patterns emerge through rampant cross-classification of the allomorphs. Allomorph choice in one part of the paradigm thus fails to constrain allomorph choice in the rest, so it looks as if the paradigms would have to be memorized en masse. The key to these patterns lies outside the system of suffixation itself, in the more conventional formal complexity of stem alternations and their paradigmatic patterning. The computationally implemented analysis presented here provides a model of inflection in which the implicational network of phonological, morphophonological and morphological conditions on formal realization are unified in a single representation.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Divisions : | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Literature and Languages | ||||||
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| Date : | 1 March 2014 | ||||||
| DOI : | 10.1017/S0022226713000030 | ||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords : | Linguistics, Language & Linguistics, LINGUISTICS, NETWORK MORPHOLOGY, DATR | ||||||
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| Additional Information : | Copyright 2014 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. | ||||||
| Depositing User : | Symplectic Elements | ||||||
| Date Deposited : | 17 Sep 2014 08:14 | ||||||
| Last Modified : | 16 Jan 2019 16:52 | ||||||
| URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/806008 |
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