Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

Deriving Polarity Effects in Inflectional Morphology

In this paper, I argue for a new, theory-neutral approach to polarity effects resting upon the idea that the choice of marker for a given feature specification is determined by the choice of marker for a minimally different specification. In paradigms instantiating polarity effects, the matching of morpho-syntactic and phonological features proceeds by natural class based-rules, but is partly o...

Inflectional Morphology Analyzer for Sanskrit

The paper describes a Sanskrit morphological analyzer that identifies and analyzes inflected nounforms and verb-forms in any given sandhi-free text. The system which has been developed as java servlet RDBMS can be tested at http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in (Language Processing Tools > Sanskrit Tinanta Analyzer/Subanta Analyzer) with Sanskrit data as unicode text. Subsequently, the separate systems of ...

Processing Inflectional and Derivational Morphology

Three lexical decision experiments were carried out to investigate the nature of morphological decomposition in the lexical system. The first of these experiments compares the priming effect of inflectionally and derivationally related forms on a simple inflected word. Italian derived words like mutevole (changeable) were as effective as non-derived inllected words like mutarono (they changed) ...

Degrees of grammatical productivity in inflectional morphology

This paper focusses on grammatical productivity as constitutive property of a model of dynamic morphology (in contrast to overlapping static morphology, which is unproductive). Grammatical productivity is located in the potential system of grammar (here exemplified with inflectional morphology) as opposed to type frequency belonging to the level of language as social institution and to token fr...