Affix rivalry in French demonym formation: The role of linguistic and non-linguistic parameters

IF 0.7 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Juliette Thuilier, D. Tribout, Marine Wauquier
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Abstract

Affix rivalry is defined as the phenomenon of morphological competition where affixes and meaning are in a many-to-one relationship. Because of their poor semantic content, demonyms are perfect candidates for the investigation of selectional constraints in such a context. Indeed the morphological processes they originate from are characterized by their shared, straightfoward semantic relation, as they denote inhabitants linked to the toponym they derive from, which allows for the apparently simplified scrutinization of non-semantic properties. Investigations suggest a more nuanced and complex reality. The present study provides a quantitative and statistical investigation of the rivalry between French - ois, - ais, - ien and - éen suffixes. It notably relies on phonological and morphological features. Its contribution pertains to the use of statistical modeling to provide a quantitative description and to the integration of extralinguistic features on the nature of geographical proximity in a quantitative approach. The study shows that while the model cannot accurately predict the suffix of a given demonym based on these features, it still draws on the main tendencies underlying affix rivalry in the formation of French demonyms.
法语魔词形成中的词缀竞争:语言和非语言参数的作用
词缀竞争是词缀与意义处于多对一关系中的形态竞争现象。由于其较差的语义内容,在这种情况下,同义词是研究选择约束的完美候选者。事实上,它们起源的形态过程以其共享的、直接的语义关系为特征,因为它们表示与它们来源的地名相关的居民,这允许对非语义属性进行明显简化的审查。调查显示了一个更加微妙和复杂的现实。本研究对法语-ois、-ais、-ien和-éen后缀之间的竞争进行了定量和统计调查。它主要依赖于语音和形态特征。它的贡献涉及使用统计建模来提供定量描述,以及以定量方法整合关于地理邻近性质的语言外特征。研究表明,尽管该模型无法根据这些特征准确预测给定地名的后缀,但它仍然借鉴了法语地名形成中词缀竞争的主要趋势。
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