Typology, diachrony, and universals of semantic change in word formation: a Romanist’s look at the polysemy of agent nouns

• Main Author: Rainer, Franz
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2003
• Subjects: 0; computational morphology; paradigms; inflection; derivation; Levenshtein distance; morphological processing; stem frequency; Italian; masked priming; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis