Inflection

Deponency, syncretism, and what lies between

by Greville G. Corbett

Gender in Russian: An account of gender specification and its relationship to declension

by Greville G. Corbett

Gender, animacy, and declensional class assignment: a unified account for Russian

by Greville G. Corbett

Norman Fraser & Greville G. Corbett. 1995. Gender, animacy and declensional class assignment: a unified account for Russian. In: Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1994. Dordrecht: Kluwer. pp. 123-50. [Note: the Yearbook for a given year was published the next year.]

Der Ursprung des synthetischen Imperfekts im Jakutischen

by Marek Stachowski

Das jakutische Futursuffix -ya(x)

by Marek Stachowski

Der Instrumental im Jakutischen und Dolganischen

by Marek Stachowski

Der Komitativ im Jakutischen und Dolganischen

by Marek Stachowski

When the fly flied and when the fly flew: how semantics can make sense of inflection.

by Melody Dye

Ramscar, M., Dye, M. & Hubner, M. (in press) When the fly flied and when the fly flew: how semantics can make sense of inflection. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Although psychological theories of inflectional morphology have traditionally considered phonological and grammatical... more Although psychological theories of inflectional morphology have traditionally considered phonological and grammatical information to be the only relevant factors in the inflection process, there is ample evidence indicating that semantic information can play a role in determining the past tense forms of both existing and novel homophone verb stems. This paper presents two experiments that use on-line measures to test the prediction that semantic context affects the comprehension of both the irregular and regular past tense forms of verbs. Consistent with the predictions of “single-route” accounts that model inflection using a uniform process of comparison to stored forms in memory, and contrary to the predictions of context-independent rule theories, semantics are found to affect past-tense production and comprehension for both irregular and regular verbs, and for both existing and nonce verb forms. We discuss how these findings may be understood in terms of recent research suggesting that language learning may be a discriminative process.

Estrutura interna e flexão de número dos nomes terminados em “-ão”: onde reside a “irregularidade”?

by João Veloso

The conjugations of Colonial Otomi

by Enrique Palancar

Autonomous morphological complexity in Kayardild

by Erich Round

Paper presented at the Workshop on Morphological Complexity, Harvard University, 12 January, 2010.

Morphomic representation in Kayardild inflection

by Erich Round

Paper presented at Perspectives on the Morphome, Coimbra, Portugal, 29 October, 2010.

Kayardild morphology, phonology and morphosyntax

by Erich Round

PhD dissertation from Yale University

Kayardild possesses one of, if not the, most exuberant systems of morphological concord known to linguists, and a... more Kayardild possesses one of, if not the, most exuberant systems of morphological concord known to linguists, and a phonological system which is intricately sensitive to its morphology. This dissertation provides a comprehensive description of the phonology of Kayardild, an investigation of its phonetics, its intonation, and a formal analysis of its inflectional morphology. A key component of the latter is the existence of a ‘morphomic’ level of representation intermediate between morphosyntactic features and underlying phonological forms.

Chapter 2 introduces the segmental inventory of Kayardild, the phonetic realisations of surface segments, and their phonotactics. Chapter 3 provides an introduction to the empirical facts of Kayardild word structure, outlining the kinds of morphs of which words are composed, their formal shapes and their combinations. Chapter 4 treats the segmental phonology of Kayardild. After a survey of the mappings between underlying and (lexical) surface forms, the primary topic is the interaction of the phonology with morphology, although major generalisations identifiable in the phonology itself are also identified and discussed. Chapter 5 examines Kayardild stress, and presents a constraint based analysis, before turning to an empirical and analytical discussion of intonation. Chapter 6, on the syntax and morphosyntax of Kayardild, is most substantial chapter of the dissertation. In association with the examination of a large corpus of new and newly collated data, mutually compatible analyses of the syntax and morphosyntactic features of Kayardild are built up and compared against less favourable alternatives. A critical review of Evans’ (1995a) analysis of similar phenomena is also provided. Chapter 7 turns to the realisational morphology — the component of the grammar which ties the morphosyntax to the phonology, by realising morphosyntactic features structures as morphomic representations, then morphomic representations as underlying phonological representations. A formalism is proposed in order to express these mappings within a constraint based grammar.

In addition to enriching our understanding of Kayardild, the dissertation presents data and analyses which will be of interest for theories of the interface between morphology on the one hand and phonology and syntax on the other, as well as for morphological and phonological theory more narrowly.

Stems in Lithuanian verbal inflection (with remarks on derivation)

by Peter Arkadiev

Submitted to a special issue of "Word Structure"

This paper deals with the three stems traditionally postulated in the description of Lithuanian verbal inflection,... more This paper deals with the three stems traditionally postulated in the description of Lithuanian verbal inflection, viz. the Present stem, the Past stem and the Infinitive stem. These stems play major role in the subgrouping of verbs into inflectional classes. The status of each of the stems as ‘morphomic’ or ‘inflectional’ is assessed in the light of the data from both inflectional and derivational morphology. It is argued on the basis of intricate prosodic and morphophonological data that the Infinitive stem is indeed necessary for an adequate description of the Lithuanian verbal system, and also that a separate Past Passive Participle stem relevant for deverbal derivation can also be postulated.