Dunstan Brown
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dunstan Brown plays a role.
2022 Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space, Bell, Melanie J., Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli (eds.), pp. 326–336 | Introduction
2022 Paradigm gaps are associated with weird “distributional semantics” properties: Russian defective nouns and their case and number paradigms Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space, Bell, Melanie J., Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli (eds.), pp. 395–421 | Article
This study investigates the phenomenon of defectiveness in Russian case and number noun paradigms from the perspective of distributional semantics. We made use of word embeddings, high-dimensional vectors trained from large text corpora, and compared the observed paradigms of nouns that are… read more
2014 Variation in pronominal indexing: Lexical stipulation vs. referential properties in Alor-Pantar languages Studies in Language 38:1, pp. 44–79 | Article
We examine the role of referential properties and lexical stipulation in three closely related languages of eastern Indonesia, the Alor-Pantar languages Abui, Kamang, and Teiwa. Our focus is on the continuum along which event properties (e.g. volitionality, affectedness) are highly important at one… read more
2012 Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: Validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency data Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Article
This paper addresses the question of whether it is possible to use machine learning techniques on linguistic data to validate linguistic theory. We determine how readily inflectional classes recognized by linguists can be inferred by an unsupervised learning method when it is presented with the… read more
2007 The alignment of form and function: Corpus-based evidence from Russian International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:4, pp. 511–534 | Article
This paper analyses constraints on inflectional syncretism and inflectional allomorphy using frequency information. Syncretism arises where one form is associated with more than one function, whereas inflectional allomorphy occurs where there is more than one inflectional class, and a single… read more
2004 Suppletion: Frequency, categories and distribution of stems Studies in Language 28:2, pp. 387–418 | Article
Suppletion is where the word-forms of the same lexeme have phonologically distinct stems. A study of thirty languages shows it to be surprisingly widespread, suggesting resistance to the pressure of paradigmatic levelling. While a major factor in its preservation appears to be the high frequency… read more
2002 7. Morphology, typology, computation Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 91–104 | Chapter
2001 Frequency, regularity and the paradigm: A perspective from Russian on a complex relation Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Article