Current Issues in Morphological Theory

(Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency

Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13–16 May 2010

Edited by Ferenc Kiefer, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár
Hungarian Academy of Sciences / Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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.
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Table of Contents

Foreword & acknowledgments
vii–viii
Editors’ introduction
ix–xx
Part I. Regularity, irregularity, and analogy
Arguments from Lovari loan-verb adaptation for an analogy-based analysis of verbal systems
Márton András Baló
1–22
Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian
László Kálmán, Péter Rebrus and Miklós Törkenczy
23–50
Variation in the possessive allomorphy of Hungarian
Péter Rácz and Péter Rebrus
51–64
Revisiting exocentricity in compounding: Evidence from Greek and Cypriot*
Angela Ralli and Marios Andreou
65–82
A constructionist account of the Modern Dutch adnominal genitive*
Alan K. Scott
83–104
Part II. The role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition
Perspectives on morphological complexity*
Anna Maria Di Sciullo
105–134
Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: Validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency data*
Dunstan Brown and Roger Evans
135–162
A working typology of multiple exponence*
Gabriela Caballero and Alice C. Harris
163–188
Linguistic self-regulation: The case of Greek grammatical gender change in progress*
Anna Anastassiadis-Syméonidis and Maria Mitsiaki
189–216
Suffix predictability and stem transparency in the acquisition of German noun plurals*
Sabine Laaha and Wolfgang U. Dressler
217–236
Acquisition of German diminutive formation and compounding in a comparative perspective: Evidence for typology and the role of frequency
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Laura E. Lettner and Katharina Korecky-Kröll
237–264
Index
265–268

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

Linguistics

BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2012012723
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