[BOOK][B] Spreading patterns: Diffusional change in the English system of complementation

H De Smet - 2013 - books.google.com
Spreading Change: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation
examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English …

[BOOK][B] The typological diversity of morphomes: A cross-linguistic study of unnatural morphology

B Herce - 2023 - library.oapen.org
This book constitutes the first typologically oriented monograph on morphomes, which is the
term given to systematic morphological identities, usually within inflectional paradigms, that …

More or less unnatural: Semantic similarity shapes the learnability and cross-linguistic distribution of unnatural syncretism in morphological paradigms

C Saldana, B Herce, B Bickel - Open Mind, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Morphological systems often reuse the same forms in different functions, creating what is
known as syncretism. While syncretism varies greatly, certain cross-linguistic tendencies are …

Entrenchment effects in language change.

H De Smet - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of the relations between the cognitive
linguistics concept of entrenchment and the field of historical linguistics. The overview …

[PDF][PDF] A typological approach to the morphome

B Herce - 2020 - openresearch.surrey.ac.uk
This dissertation constitutes the first typologically-oriented monograph on morphomes,
which is the term given to systematic morphological identities that do not map onto …

Person features and syncretism

P Ackema, A Neeleman - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2013 - Springer
Any theory of person features must account for known typological patterns (including the
inventory of persons and generalizations about syncretism), but also provide a handle on …

Variation in verbal inflection in Dutch dialects

H Bennis, A MacLean - Morphology, 2006 - Springer
From a diachronic perspective, Germanic languages are in the process of deflection. In this
context, there appears to be a rather chaotic amount of variation within the verbal inflectional …

Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits

B Herce, C Saldana, J Mansfield, B Bickel - Glossa, 2023 - zora.uzh.ch
Agreement markers that refer to the same feature or argument tend to be found in the same
position (eg, all subject agreement markers as suffixes, all object agreement markers as …

[PDF][PDF] Positional splits in person-number agreement paradigms reflect a naturalness gradient: Typological and experimental evidence

B Herce, C Saldana, J Mansfield, B Bickel - 2022 - files.osf.io
Agreement markers that refer to the same feature or argument tend to be found in the same
position (eg, all subject agreement markers as suffixes, all object agreement markers as …

[PDF][PDF] Person mismatch agreement

I Driemel - Proceedings of NELS, 2018 - imke.driemel.net
Resolution agreement containing PERSON mismatches typically follows a PERSON
hierarchy of the form 1≻ 2≻ 3 (Zwicky 1977), that is conjoined arguments with different …