A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots
The root as a morphological unit has been utilized in the description and explanation of many linguistic patterns. The concept of the root, though, is not approached consistently across diverse morphological theories, making cross-linguistic comparison problematic. This paper explores a methodology...
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oai:ojs.pasithee.library.upatras.gr:article-27312019-09-11T07:09:39Z A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots Montoya, Ignacio L. roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic The root as a morphological unit has been utilized in the description and explanation of many linguistic patterns. The concept of the root, though, is not approached consistently across diverse morphological theories, making cross-linguistic comparison problematic. This paper explores a methodology for comparing roots across languages using what is called a remnant approach: Roots are characterized as the elements that remain after accounting for inflectional and derivational morphology. Such a characterization is preferable to a characterization in which roots are defined a priori in terms of a set of properties because it offers a procedure for identifying roots that is independent of the properties that we want to examine. The methodology for identifying roots via a remnant approach is illustrated using data from Modern Hebrew and Spanish, and a comparison of roots identified in this way is offered. Several observations from this comparison are discussed, including, for instance, that roots identified in such a manner have a more characteristic distribution than form or meaning in both Hebrew and Spanish. This and other findings suggest potential parameters that can serve as the basis of a more extensive typology of roots. In addition, the preliminary results of this work offer insights that can inform morphological theory. Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2016-09-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article application/pdf https://pasithee.library.upatras.gr/mmm/article/view/2731 10.26220/mmm.2731 Mediterranean Morphology Meetings; Vol 10 (2016): Quo vadis morphology?; 136-145 Mediterranean Morphology Meeting; Vol 10 (2016): Quo vadis morphology?; 136-145 1826-7491 eng https://pasithee.library.upatras.gr/mmm/article/view/2731/2994 |
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0 0 0 0 0 computational morphology; paradigms; inflection; derivation; Levenshtein distance 0 0 0 0 0 0 morphological processing; stem frequency; Italian; masked priming 0 0 0 0 0 compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods 0 0 0 0 0 0 suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination 0 0 roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic 0 0 0 0 0 motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage 0 0 0 0 0 compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root 0 0 features; morphology; periphrasis 0 0 0 0 Montoya, Ignacio L. A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots |
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A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots |
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A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots |
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A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots |
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A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots |
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A comparison of roots as units of analysis in Modern Hebrew and Spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots |
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comparison of roots as units of analysis in modern hebrew and spanish: exploring a remnant approach to defining roots |
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The root as a morphological unit has been utilized in the description and explanation of many linguistic patterns. The concept of the root, though, is not approached consistently across diverse morphological theories, making cross-linguistic comparison problematic. This paper explores a methodology for comparing roots across languages using what is called a remnant approach: Roots are characterized as the elements that remain after accounting for inflectional and derivational morphology. Such a characterization is preferable to a characterization in which roots are defined a priori in terms of a set of properties because it offers a procedure for identifying roots that is independent of the properties that we want to examine. The methodology for identifying roots via a remnant approach is illustrated using data from Modern Hebrew and Spanish, and a comparison of roots identified in this way is offered. Several observations from this comparison are discussed, including, for instance, that roots identified in such a manner have a more characteristic distribution than form or meaning in both Hebrew and Spanish. This and other findings suggest potential parameters that can serve as the basis of a more extensive typology of roots. In addition, the preliminary results of this work offer insights that can inform morphological theory. |
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