A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation

Anward, Jan

doi:10.1515/9783110806120.3

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“…Some languages make extensive use of this capacity of the linguistic systems, while in others, the transcategorial functioning seems to be more limited and to follow different patterns. However, as pointed out by Anward (2000), part-of-speech recycling might be a much more common situation than usually thought. So finally, can we draw a typological sketch of transcategoriality and explain its various modalities in relation to different linguistic systems?…”

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The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory

Robert

2018

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Transcategorial morphemes share the common ability to be used synchronically across different syntactic categories (synchronic grammaticalization). This paper first shows that transcategoriality is a general property of linguistic systems, variously exploited by languages, then addresses the theoretical questions raised by these morphemes. A new model accounting for this transcategorial functioning, named “fractal grammar”, is proposed and illustrated by various examples. The analysis for this particular functioning relates the polysemy of these morphemes to their syntactic flexibility in a dynamic way: the variation of the syntactic scope of the morpheme (“fractal functioning”) is triggered by its environment and produces its polysemy (variation of the semantic scope). Fractal grammar is thus defined by two basic mechanisms: the construal of a common image-schema (“scale invariance”), accounting for the unity of the morpheme, and the activation of “scale (or level) properties”, accounting for the semantic and syntactic variations. A typological sketch of transcategoriality is then sketched, in relation to the strategies used by linguistic systems for the distribution of grammatical information. Three types of transcategorial strategies are distinguished: “oriented”, “generic”, and “functional” transcategoriality. The status of linguistic categories is then discussed in the light of the analysis of these particular morphemes.

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The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory

Robert

2018

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“…Where our model has a very simple pool of remembered grammatical sequences, natural language instead evolves by the gradual accretion of group memory over generations. There is also the matter of where grammatical categories such as {N, Adj, Num, Dem} come from, how they should be identified and whether they are even theoretically defensible (Anward, 2000;Croft, 2001;Bisang, 2010;Kenesei, 2020). All these will be challenges for future related research.…”

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The emergence of grammatical structure from inter-predictability

Mansfield¹,

Kemp²

2023

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Recent research has shown that words or morphemes that are closer to each other in linear order tend to have higher statistical inter-predictability, measured as mutual information. We offer an explanation for this in terms of holistic chunking of inter-predictable symbols, which provides an efficiency gain in the retrieval of stored symbols to encode a message. Inter-predictable chunking then interacts with structural priming to produce the schematic linear structures that are characteristic of both syntax and morphology. We thus argue that predictability and efficiency play a key role in the emergence of grammatical structure, going beyond previous information-theoretic analyses of natural language. In this paper we articulate some fundamental principles of chunking and linearisation, and use a simple computational implementation to show that these are sufficient to produce natural-language-like structures, using NP-internal ordering as a case study.

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“…Os nomes são uma das principais categorias lexicais das línguas naturais e estão universalmente presentes nas línguas do mundo (TRASK, 1994). Eles não só expressam entidades tais como pessoas e coisas, mas também noções relacionadas a eventos, lugares, tempo, dentre outras (ANWARD, 2000). Número e gênero são as categorias gramaticais mais comuns atribuídas a nomes e, em muitas línguas, a expressão formal das noções de singular/plural e masculino e feminino é realizada através do mecanismo flexional (ANDERSON, 1995).…”

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Aspectos da Morfologia Nominal da Língua Kỳikatêjê

Costa

Tavares

2023

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Neste artigo, apresentamos alguns aspectos da morfologia nominal da língua Kỳikatêjê1. Inicialmente, apresentamos uma visão geral sobre a língua e o povo Kỳikatêjê da aldeia Kôjakati. Em seguida, descrevemos os tipos de nomes existentes na língua e suas propriedades gramaticais, como as categorias de número e gênero. Por fim, discutimos alguns aspectos da morfologia derivacional dos nomes em Kỳikatêjê, a saber, atenuação, intensificação e a composição. Pretendemos contribuir para os estudos Jê, para um maior e melhor entendimento sobre essa classe de palavra e para o estudo da língua no âmbito escolar, uma vez que o atual estado da língua é de obsolescência, sendo falada apenas pelos idosos e em contextos cada vez mais restritos nos domínios sociais na aldeia Kôjakati.

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A dynamic model of part-of-speech differentiation

Cited by 109 publications

References 16 publications

The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory

The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory

The emergence of grammatical structure from inter-predictability

Aspectos da Morfologia Nominal da Língua Kỳikatêjê

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