Inflectional Classes and Containment

TY - CHAP

T1 - Inflectional Classes and Containment

AU - Brown, Dunstan Patrick

PY - 2017/10/26

Y1 - 2017/10/26

N2 - Inflectional classes are an instance of autonomous morphology, where expression in form cross-cuts syntactically relevant distinctions. However, most analyses assume some kind of ‘containment’, where choice of inflectional allomorphs is largely restricted to a part of speech. In default inheritance accounts of morphology higher defaults are assumed to correspond to recognizable parts of speech. Data from Archi and Noon indicate that violations of containment are not so implausible, but even here there is a role for principles, such as Network Morphology’s ‘morphological projection’, or Spencer's ‘morpholexically coherent lexicon’, that entail a relationship between parts of speech and default morphological classes.

AB - Inflectional classes are an instance of autonomous morphology, where expression in form cross-cuts syntactically relevant distinctions. However, most analyses assume some kind of ‘containment’, where choice of inflectional allomorphs is largely restricted to a part of speech. In default inheritance accounts of morphology higher defaults are assumed to correspond to recognizable parts of speech. Data from Archi and Noon indicate that violations of containment are not so implausible, but even here there is a role for principles, such as Network Morphology’s ‘morphological projection’, or Spencer's ‘morpholexically coherent lexicon’, that entail a relationship between parts of speech and default morphological classes.

KW - Autonomous morphology

KW - Containment default inheritance

KW - Inflectional class

KW - Morphological projection

KW - Part of speech

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U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780198712329.003.0004

DO - 10.1093/oso/9780198712329.003.0004

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9780198712329

SP - 73

EP - 93

BT - Defaults in Morphological Theory

A2 - Gisborne, Nikolas

A2 - Hippisley, Andrew

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -