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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
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, Márton András Baló, Dunstan Brown, Gabriela Caballero, Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Roger Evans, Alice C. Harris, László Kálmán, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabine Laaha, Laura E. Lettner, Maria Mitsiaki, Péter Rácz, Angela Ralli, Péter Rebrus, Alan K. Scott, and Miklós Törkenczy.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 322] 2012. xx, 268 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 May 2012
Published online on 11 May 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Foreword & acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
- Editors’ introduction | pp. ix–xx
- Part I. Regularity, irregularity, and analogy
- Arguments from Lovari loan-verb adaptation for an analogy-based analysis of verbal systemsMárton András Baló | pp. 1–22
- Possible and impossible variation in HungarianLászló Kálmán, Péter Rebrus and Miklós Törkenczy | pp. 23–50
- Variation in the possessive allomorphy of HungarianPéter Rácz and Péter Rebrus | pp. 51–64
- Revisiting exocentricity in compounding: Evidence from Greek and CypriotAngela Ralli and Marios Andreou | pp. 65–82
- A constructionist account of the Modern Dutch adnominal genitiveAlan K. Scott | pp. 83–104
- Part II. The role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition
- Perspectives on morphological complexityAnna Maria Di Sciullo | pp. 105–134
- Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: Validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency dataDunstan Brown and Roger Evans | pp. 135–162
- A working typology of multiple exponenceGabriela Caballero and Alice C. Harris | pp. 163–188
- Linguistic self-regulation: The case of Greek grammatical gender change in progressAnna Anastassiadis-Syméonidis and Maria Mitsiaki | pp. 189–216
- Suffix predictability and stem transparency in the acquisition of German noun pluralsSabine Laaha and Wolfgang U. Dressler | pp. 217–236
- Acquisition of German diminutive formation and compounding in a comparative perspective: Evidence for typology and the role of frequencyWolfgang U. Dressler, Laura E. Lettner and Katharina Korecky-Kröll | pp. 237–264
- Index | pp. 265–268
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