{"title":"SEMIWORDS AND AFFIXOIDS: THE TERRITORY BETWEEN WORD AND AFFIX *","authors":"I. Kenesei","doi":"10.1556/ALING.54.2007.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the status of bound forms in compounds and other lexical items, but it ultimately aims at setting up a hierarchy of lexical items of various degrees of “freedom”, making use of clear-cut criteria applicable in at least one (fairly large) group of languages. In spite of the difficulties of the various (phonological, morphological, lexical, and semantic) definitions of ‘word’, Bloomfield’s characterization of minimum free forms is applied to designate items at the top of the hierarchy, which are called ‘autonomous words’. Bound forms that allow autonomous words to occur between them and the lexical item they are bound to are ‘dependent words’. The novelty of this paper lies in dividing the rest of the lexical items “below”, i.e., ‘nonwords’, into three groups: semiwords, affixoids, and affixes, based on a new application of a familiar operation, coordination reduction, which is shown to work both backward and forward for some items, but only backward reduction is possible for ot...","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"54 1","pages":"263-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.3.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67076347","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":"Classification, headedness and pluralization: Corpus evidence from French compounds","authors":"Maria Rosenberg","doi":"10.1556/ALING.54.2007.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the relation between headedness and pluralization in French compounds attested in a newspaper corpus. It leans on the classification of compounds proposed by Bisetto and Scalise ...","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"59 1","pages":"341-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.3.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67076398","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":"Awareness of second language inflectional morphology: A case study on Finnish as a second language","authors":"Minna Suni","doi":"10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"The Finnish language has a very extensive inflectional morphology, whereas Vietnamese, as an isolating language, has no inflection at all. Therefore, the major challenge encountered by Vietnamese immigrants learning Finnish is to develop awareness of the existence, function and use of inflection. This paper examines how this process manifests itself in native-non-native speaker (NS-NNS) conversations during the initial stages of second language acquisition. All the negotiation sequences including overt signals of problems in understanding were subjected to a closer analysis, and the linguistic modifications performed to solve the problems were analysed on the level of both interaction and grammar. In this paper, the focus is on the observable signs of gradually growing morphological awareness, and especially the receptive segmenting skills of the learners.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"54 1","pages":"217-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67076294","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 transition: Plural inflection of Finnish nouns by Estonian and Russian learners","authors":"Annekatrin Kaivapalu, Maisa Martin","doi":"10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The paper explores the nature of cross-linguistic influence in morphology. 30 Estonian (a closely related L1) and 30 Russian (a non-related L1) beginning and advanced learners of L2 Finnish were tested for their skills in nominal inflection in three different tasks: separate nouns of morphophonologically varying inflectional categories to be inflected in several plural case forms in writing, the same nouns to be used in a narrative writing task and in an oral inflection task. The nouns were selected to represent various degrees of inflectional and/or semantic similarity between Finnish and Estonian (for Russian no such similarity exists). The results indicate that—in opposition to what has been previously claimed—not only does cross-linguistic influence exist within the domain of morphology but it also varies systematically across inflectional categories and between groups at different levels of general skills in Finnish.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"54 1","pages":"129-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67075801","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":"Derivational resources in P’urhepecha: Morphological complexity and verb formation","authors":"Martha Mendoza","doi":"10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the derivational morphology of P’urhepecha, especially with regard to verbal forms. P’urhepecha, or Tarascan, is an isolated Mesoamerican Ianguage of Central-Western Mexico, with about 200,000 speakers. An agglutinative type of language where suffixes are attached to the stem in a fairly regular fashion, P’urhepecha also has an extensive inflectional morphology with a system of cases, including genitive, locative, and residential. The present work presents an overall picture of the linguistic complexity of this intriguing language and its rich morphological resources through a review of some of the most common and productive types of derivational morphemes that occur as part of the verbal complex in P’urhepecha, including body-part suffixes, causatives, deictic suffixes, and other adverbial suffixes.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"54 1","pages":"157-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.2.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67075809","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":"Three puzzles about denominal adjectives in -eux","authors":"B. Fradin","doi":"10.1556/ALING.54.2007.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the semantic interpretation of denominal adjectives ending in -eux formed on an N denoting a concrete entity.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"54 1","pages":"3-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.54.2007.1.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67076046","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":"The markedness of the unmarked","authors":"Peter D Szigetvari","doi":"10.1556/ALING.53.2006.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"There are several phonological categories whose markedness-as inferred from typical markedness metrics- fails to match the representational complexity posited for them. More specifically, glottal stops, geminate clusters, and onsetless syllables are representationally the simplest of their category, yet other criteria, like implicational hierarchies, mark them as special. This paper aims at comprehending this paradox.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"53 1","pages":"433-447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.4.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67075936","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":"Conditions on conditional mood","authors":"Bartos Huba","doi":"10.1556/ALING.53.2006.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that conditional mood morphology in Hungarian is the spellout of a morphosyntactic feature excl(w), the semantic interpretation of which is modal exclusion, i.e., counterfactuality. In certain cases (such as wishes, or CF conditionals) this feature is lexically specified on M[ood], with the direct interpretive aim of counterfactuality, while in others M has this feature unvalued, and inherits its value from the category Mod[ality] in a standard AGREE relation. The strong interrelation between M and Mod also manifests in scope phenomena earlier analysed as scope inversion between Mod and T[ense], but can now be accounted for in a more principled way. Finally, it is shown that, unlike what is found in many other languages, Hungarian cannot use tense marking as the exponent of excl(w), because its \"tense\" is relative, rather than deictic. Therefore, this language makes use of mood morphology to encode CF, in the particular form of conditional mood.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"53 1","pages":"227-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.3.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67075836","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 PHONETICALLY-BASED APPROACH TO THE PHONOLOGY OF (v) IN HUNGARIAN","authors":"Zoltán G. Kiss, Zsuzsanna Bárkányi","doi":"10.1556/ALING.53.2006.2-3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.2-3.4","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a unified, surface-based functionalist analysis of the phonology of Hungarian v, which is shown to fare better than past generative formalist/representational models. The model introduced can account for the two-fold patterning of v with respect to voicing assimilation without evoking exceptional means. Furthermore, it can also explain certain asymmetries as well as graduality displayed by v's phonotactic distribution, namely, that some clusters are more frequent in the lexicon, whereas others are marginal. The analysis is grounded in the aerodynamics of v's articulation (which involves inherently contradictory targets) as well as in the relative perceptibility of its contrast in various contexts. It is shown with the help of quantitative experiments that v's phonological patterning is directly derivable from these phonetic factors.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"53 1","pages":"175-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.2-3.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67075821","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":"Direct and indirect speech in straight-talking Israeli","authors":"G. Zuckermann","doi":"10.1556/ALING.53.2006.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"Israeli is currently one of the official languages of the State of Israel. It is a fusional synthetic language, with non-concatenative discontinuous morphemes realised by vowel infixation. This typological paper demonstrates that there is a clear distinction in Israeli between direct and indirect speech. The indirect speech report, which is a subset of complement clauses, is characterized by a shift in person, spatial and temporal deixis. However, unlike in English, the verbs usually do not undergo a tense shift. Israeli has various lexicalized direct speech reports. By and large, Israeli reported speech constructions reflect Yiddish and Standard Average European patterns, often enhancing a suitable pre-existent Hebrew construction.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"53 1","pages":"467-481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.53.2006.4.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67075958","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}