Competition in inflection and word-formation. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Hans Christian Luschützky, editors.
• Other Names: Rainer, Franz; Gardani, Francesco, 1975-; Dressler, Wolfgang U, 1939-; Luschützky, Hans Christian
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Contributors; Part I Introduction; Competition in Morphology: A Historical Outline; 1 Introduction; 2 From Antiquity to the Neogrammarians; 3 Structuralism; 4 The Elsewhere Condition; 5 Blocking; 6 Inheritance-Based Models; 7 Optimality Theory; 8 Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Computer Modeling; 9 Conclusions; References; Part II Derivational Morphology; Competitors and Alternants in Linguistic Morphology; 1 Introduction; 2 The Competitive Exclusion Principle; 2.1 The Dearth of Synonyms; 3 Morpheme Alternants and Niche Differentiation; 4 A Little History 4.1 An Etymological Excursus4.2 Roman Jakobson and the Search for Invariance; 5 The Allophone to Allomorph Analogy and the Beginning of Elsewhere; 6 A Gausian Approach to Morpheme Alternants; 6.1 Elsewhere and Invariance; 7 The Semantics of Derivation and Inflection; 8 Rivals: Divvying Up the Spoils; 8.1 Quasi-Morphemes; 8.2 Xa/ence/y; 8.3 Xential: A Purely Orthographic Neighborhood; 9 Conclusion; References; Competition in Derivation: What Can We Learn from French Doublets in -age and -ment?; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Defining True Doublets; 3 The Dimensions of Competition 4 Matching Lexemes and Lexical Entries5 Modeling Competition; 5.1 The Structuralist Model; 5.2 The Construction Parameter; 5.3 The Role of Derivational Series; 5.4 The Role of Anchoring; 5.5 The Role of the Morphological Family; 6 Sketch of an Account; 7 Conclusion; References; Competition Between Event-Denoting Deverbal Nouns and Nominal Infinitives in Italian; 1 Introduction; 2 Productivity and Word Formation; 3 Italian Event Nominalizations: Constraints on Productivity; 4 Italian Event Nominalizations: Which Rationale?; 5 Semantic Corpus Analysis; 5.1 Hypothesis and Experiment 5.2 Statistical Association Measures5.3 Results and Qualitative Analysis; 5.3.1 Are the Two Nominalizations Semantically Different?; 5.3.2 How Do the Meanings of NIs and EDNs Differ?; 6 Difference in Concreteness; 7 Conclusions; References; Rivalry and Lack of Blocking Among Italian and German Diminutives in Adult and Child Language; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Rivalry, Blocking and Productivity; 1.2 Morphosemantic Transparency/Opacity; 2 Rivalry Among Italian Diminutive Suffixes; 3 Rivalry in Austrian German; 4 Scaling Morphosemantic Transparency/Opacity; 5 Consequences for Diminutive Rivalry 6 Rivalry in First Language Acquisition7 Preference for Morphosemantic Transparency Over Opacity; 8 Conclusion and Outlook; References; Blocking as a Function of the Nature of Linguistic Representations: Where Psycholinguistics and Morphology Meet; 1 Blocking from a Psycholinguistic Perspective; 2 Rivalry Between -ens and -heid in a Bilingual Setting; 3 Facts About the Neural Representation of Language; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Frequency; 3.3 Analogy (Similarity); 4 Strength of Co-activation and Blocking; 4.1 Blocking as Differentiation by Means of Bimodal Frequencies
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (334 pages)
• Subjects: 415/.95; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Inflection; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Inflection; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3030025500; 9783030025502
• Related ISBNs: 9783030025496
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