Inflected and periphrastic features: issues of comparison and modelling

• Main Author: Popova, Gergana
• 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

This paper discusses the association of periphrastic constructions, that is syntactic constructions that express grammatical meaning usually realised by inflection, with features. The paper argues that the morphosyntactic non-compositionality in periphrasis and in ‘nested periphrases’ can be modeled...