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The Oxford Handbook of Inflection
No full textThis is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014). It provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of work on inflection - the expression of grammatical information through changes in word forms. The volume's 24 chapters are written by experts in the field from a variety of theoretical backgrounds, with examples drawn from a wide range of languages.
Alexeme's inflection-class membership is part of its lexical identity, and may therefore serve a disambiguating function; for instance, the lie1 in He just lay at home inflects as a strong verb, while the lie2 in He just lied at home inflects as a weak ..
The Oxford Handbook of Inflection
No full textThis is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014). It provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of work on inflection - the expression of grammatical information through changes in word forms. The volume's 24 chapters are written by experts in the field from a variety of theoretical backgrounds, with examples drawn from a wide range of languages. Alexeme's inflection-class membership is part of its lexical identity, and may therefore serve a disambiguating function; for instance, the lie1 in He just lay at home inflects as a strong verb, while the lie2 in He just lied at home inflects as a weak ..
Feature Duality
Get PDFInflectional paradigms come in two possible flavours: either the forms line up with the
featural system whose values they express, or they do not. For example, the formatives
in Table 5.1 from Chamorro (an Oceanic language of Guam) can be readily
characterised in terms of aspect-mood distinctions: ha- is the realis 3sg prefix, u- the
irrealis prefix, and reduplication marks the incompletive. Contrast this with the three
tense-aspect paradigms from Gulmancema, a Gur language of Burkina Faso. There
is a suffix -di which is found with each verb, but it cannot readily be characterised in
featural terms, because it can in fact be used for any feature: with a verb like ‘pass’
it is used for the imperfective, with a verb like ‘love’ it is used for the perfective, and
with a verb like ‘hear’ it is used for the aorist and perfective. In this case a description of the possible forms in the paradigm (unsuffixed, or with suffix -di) is separate from the feature values behind it.
What I would like to look at here is a set of paradigms that falls in between
these two extremes, where the distribution of forms appears to approximate the
feature system they express. That is, there is neither complete correspondence (as in
Chamorro) or complete divergence (as in Gulmancema). This is either a challenge to
morphological theory, which cannot readily accommodate this, as far as I know, or it demonstrates that my interpretation of the facts is wrong, in which case this may be a
useful exercise in clarifying what is or is not a possible morphological analysis. The
example involves number marking on the verb in Hualapai, a Yuman language spoken
in Arizona. Verbs distinguish four forms which, I will argue, can be understood as
representing four degrees of number, ranging from low (singular) to high (greater
plural). The morphological paradigm in turn follows an incremental principle where
the addition of a morphological marker corresponds to an increase in the number
value. However, the terms by which this morphological system is constructed do not
correspond to the values of the morphosemantic system. In effect, the morphological
system approximates the morphosemantic system without quite matching it. In §5.2
I present the structure of the verbal paradigm and argue for my particular interpretation
of it in terms of morphosemantic number. In §5.3 I present the morphological
paradigm and argue for an interpretation in terms of incremental quantity. In §5.4 I
attempt to relate the two, arguing for what this might mean for morphological theory.
All the data here is taken from the reference grammar by Watahomigie et al. (1982,
revised version from 2001), or their dictionary (2003).</p
Periphrasis and Inflection
No full textThe first part of the handbook covers the fundamental building blocks of inflectional form and content: morphemes, features, and means of exponence. Part 2 focuses on what is arguably the most characteristic property of inflectional systems, paradigmatic structure, and the non-trivial nature of the mapping between function and form. The third part deals with change and variation over time, and the fourth part covers computational issues from a theoretical and practical standpoint. Part 5 addresses psycholinguistic questions relating to language acquisition and neurocognitive disorders. The final part is devoted to sketches of individual inflectional systems, illustrating a range of typological possibilities across a genetically diverse set of languages from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Australia, Europe, and South America
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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