{"title":"Morphological Theory and Creole Languages","authors":"A. Luís","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.35","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the interaction between creole morphology and morphological theory by drawing on empirical evidence which illustrates that morphological similarities exist between creoles and non-creoles. Such evidence shows that morphological patterns in creoles may be used for the creation of new lexemes (through word-formation), that morphosyntactic features may be mapped onto existing lexemes (by means of inflection), or that derived words in creoles may be semantically non-compositional while inflected words may exhibit form–meaning mismatches and be part of non-predictable paradigms. Conceptually, the morphological evidence will be used to claim that creole word structure is just as principled as the morphology of non-creole languages, and that it can be naturally accounted for by applying the same formal apparatus that is used for the analysis of non-creole languages.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114061036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphological Theory and First Language Acquisition","authors":"E. Blom","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.29","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews findings from the field of first language acquisition that shed light on morphological theory. The focus is on the acquisition of multimorphemic words and the distinction between regular and irregular inflection. The first aim of the chapter is to show that child data should always be interpreted against the background of developments in other areas that may influence children’s morphological performance. Child data have played a role in the debate about single versus dual route processing, which overlaps in part with the theoretical distinction between full and impoverished lexical entries. The second aim of the chapter is to provide a balanced overview of the empirical arguments that may support these different theoretical views. Specific attention is paid to the interpretation of developmental errors, languages other than English, and patterns observed in atypical language learners.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"168-169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114405262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphological Theory and Second Language Acquisition","authors":"J. Archibald, G. Libben","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.36","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the world’s population speaks a second language. Most of the words in a language are multimorphemic. Thus, the study of second language acquisition and processing offers a key window onto the nature of morphological representation and morphological ability. This chapter examines the acquisition, representation, and processing of inflected, derived, and compound words in a second language. Perspectives on second language variability and accuracy are surveyed, as well as perspectives on the path of development of morphological knowledge in second language learners. The chapter highlights how linguistic theory and experimentation can be used to (a) advance the understanding of morphological representation and processing, and (b) probe what underlies morphological ability. Finally, this chapter addresses the question of how an integrated bilingual mental lexicon can both maximize interlingual connectivity and accommodate the morphological differences that exist between languages.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134229876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphology in Cognitive Grammar","authors":"R. Langacker","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668984.013.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668984.013.19","url":null,"abstract":"Basic morphological phenomena are examined from the standpoint of Cognitive Grammar, whose unified account of the many aspects of language structure allows the seamless integration of morphology with phonology, lexicon, and grammar. In this usage-based approach, structure resides in processing activity, being abstracted from usage events by the reinforcement of recurring patterns. The notion of a morpheme is viable when reconceptualized and formulated in these terms. Morphological structure is symbolic in nature, consisting in assemblies of form–meaning pairings. Among the more specific topics to be considered are the following: the nature of process morphemes; the stem/affix distinction; how this relates to compounding; morphological constructions; productivity (major vs. minor patterns); layering; phonotactic, phonological, and morphophonemic ‘rules’; and the emergence of morphological paradigms.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116531261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphological Theory and Psycholinguistics","authors":"Christina L. Gagné, T. Spalding","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.30","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews psycholinguistic theories and experimental work relating to morphologically complex words. It presents five general theoretical approaches to the processing of complex words, followed by four areas of experimental work that have been used to test these theories. The theories differ in the extent to which constituent morphemes are explicitly represented and used in processing. Indeed, they range from an approach in which there are only orthographic and semantic representations (i.e. no separate word or morpheme representations) to an approach in which the whole word and all possible constituents are represented and activated. In general, the experimental work supports the idea that the processing of complex words makes use of the morphological constituents of the words. However, the details of such processing are not yet clear.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127314407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Short History of Morphological Theory","authors":"S. Anderson","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.2","url":null,"abstract":"The original distinction, in the opposing views of René and Ferdinand de Saussure, between views of word structure based on the combination of elementary, atomic signs (or ‘morphemes’) on the one hand and relations between complex words on the other, is reviewed. Early work in American linguistics associated with Boas and Sapir is noted, and the later emergence of clearly morpheme-based views in the Bloomfieldian tradition (especially as continued by Harris, Hockett, and others) is reviewed. This picture was essentially taken over unchanged in early generative grammar, although Chomsky (1965) provided (now forgotten) arguments in favor of an alternate non-morphemic view. The re-emergence of interest in morphology in later work has led to a situation in which the two views that can be identified originally in the work of the de Saussure brothers continue to characterize two conflicting scholarly positions.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127811622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphological Theory and Computational Linguistics","authors":"Vito Pirrelli","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.32","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter provides a computer-based, algorithmic view of issues of lexical processing, ranging from the encoding of input data to the structure of output representations, going through the basic operations of word splitting, storage, access, retrieval, and assembly of intermediate representations. By illustrating the contribution of different computational frameworks (such as finite state automata, hierarchical lexica, artificial neural networks, and statistical language models) to our understanding of aspects of lexical organization, the chapter discusses the implications of theoretical models of morphology for computational models of word processing, as well as the implications of computer models for theoretical issues. In this perspective, much of current work in computational morphology does not only provide a challenging test bed for box and arrow models of lexical knowledge, but it also promises to bridge the persisting gap between theoretical frameworks and behaviourally oriented research in lexical modelling.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"02 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127451262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphological Theory and Neurolinguistics","authors":"N. Schiller, Rinus G. Verdonschot","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.31","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes neurolinguistic aspects of morphology, morphological theory, and especially morphological processing. It briefly mentions the main processing models in the literature and how they deal with morphological issues, i.e. full-listing models (all morphologically related words are listed separately in the lexicon and are processed individually), full-parsing or decompositional models (morphologically related words are not listed in the lexicon but are decomposed into their constituent morphemes, each of which is listed in the lexicon), and hybrid, so-called dual route, models (regular morphologically related words are decomposed, irregular words are listed). The chapter also summarizes some important findings from the literature that bear on neurolinguistic aspects of morphological processing, from both language comprehension and language production, taking into consideration neuropsychological patient studies as well as studies employing neuroimaging methods.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127959260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphological Theory and Sign Languages","authors":"D. Napoli","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199668984.013.37","url":null,"abstract":"Sign language morphology adds new considerations to well-studied areas, including category identification, inflection vs. derivation, the notions of ideophones, subject, and root, and properties used in lexical classifications. It makes necessary the new notion of reactive effort in understanding how biomechanical factors help shape the lexicon. The prevalence of simultaneity (verticality) over linearity (horizontal temporality) shows that linguistic analysis must include the study of physical properties (visual vs. auditory) if we are to understand language typology. Phonological parameters can have meaning associated with them, either arbitrarily or because they are iconic. This allows for lexical networks that require the mechanism of ion morphs. Certain phenomena are open to analysis as part of a system of visual representation needed in communication; that is, they are gestural and not part of language per se. So the grammar of sign languages covers a more narrow range of phenomena than that of spoken languages.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125919679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Morphology","authors":"Livio Gaeta","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668984.013.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668984.013.21","url":null,"abstract":"Natural Morphology offers a fairly elaborated model for analyzing and interpreting morphological facts, which heavily relies on the one hand on a semiotic foundation of the linguistic sign and on the other on a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive, typological, and system-specific aspects of natural languages. In this regard, it crucially distinguishes a system-independent dimension in which a number of universal preferences are at play for producing and understanding morphologically complex words from a system-dependent dimension in which language-specific factors play a major role. The morphological systems of natural languages result from the dialectic relation between these two dimensions which are concretely investigated in any conceivable empirical domain offered by languages as they are used especially in natural(istic) speech contexts, from language acquisition and change to language impairment and death.","PeriodicalId":179381,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129273251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}