“Romanes eunt domus”: where you can go with Latin morphology. Variation in motion expression between system and usage

• Main Authors: Iacobini, Claudio, Corona, Luisa
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2016
• 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

In this paper, based on a corpus analysis of Classical Latin texts, we show that, although Latin displays at the system level a wide array of linguistic resources characterizing Satellite-Framed languages, the actual usage of the strategies employed in motion encoding significantly differs from what...