Feast and Famine: Confronting overabundance and defectivity in language

Brown, Dunstan (Principal investigator)

Language and Linguistic Science

Project: Research project (funded) › Research

Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	1/09/20 → 31/08/24

Funding

AHRC: £168,944.61

1 Article
1 Special issue

Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space
Baayen, H., Brown, D. & Chuang, Y.-Y., 12 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Mental Lexicon. 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

Open Access
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Paradigm gaps are associated with weird “distributional semantics” properties: Russian defective nouns and their case and number paradigms
Chuang, Y.-Y., Brown, D., Baayen, H. & Evans, R., 30 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Mental Lexicon. 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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2 Invited talk
2 Oral presentation
1 Lecture
1 Workshop

What we know, don’t know, and want to know about defectivity and overabundance. Introductory talk for the workshop 'Re-evaluating the relationship between defectivity and overabundance' at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, 29 August - 1 September, 2023.
Bermel, N. (Speaker), Brown, D. (Speaker) & Kováříková, D. (Speaker)
30 Aug 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Brown, Dunstan; Baayen, Harald; Bermel, Neil; Chuang, Yu-Ying; Evans, Roger; Nikolaev, Alexandre. 2023. Determining the relationship between uninflectedness, overabundance and defectiveness. Paper presented at the workshop on uninflectedness, 45 Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2023), Cologne 7-10 March, 2023.
Brown, D. (Speaker), Baayen, H. (Speaker), Bermel, N. (Speaker), Chuang, Y.-Y. (Speaker), Evans, R. (Speaker) & Nikolaev, A. (Speaker)
8 Mar 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Chuang, Yu-Ying; Brown, Dunstan; Evans, Roger; Baayen, Harald. 2022. Data Mining Defectives. Presentation to the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, March 1, 2022.
Chuang, Y.-Y. (Invited speaker), Brown, D. (Invited speaker), Evans, R. (Invited speaker) & Baayen, H. (Invited speaker)
1 Mar 2022
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk