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Why "Monotonicity" Hypothesis? (Koontz-Garboden)
Should't it be "monodirectionality hypothesis"?
In my understanding, this is about the one-way that material/structure can be added to a sentence-while-generated, but never deleted. (Harley 2013 ...
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Across languages that have adjectives, what are the most common grammatical inflections for adjectives?
Not all languages have adjectives; some use adjectival nouns ("red.one" instead of "red") and/or stative verbs ("be.red" instead of "red").
Among languages that have adjectives, not all allow ...
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What is the term for a noun that stands for more than one portion of an uncountable referent?
A noun that refers to one countable thing is singular.
A noun that stands for one countable portion, part, or unit of some non-countable thing is singulative.
See http://www-01.sil.org/...
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What are the advantages of using a morpheme-based dictionary in a speech recognition system?
What are the advantages of using a morphologically-based / lemma-based dictionary in a speech recognition system as opposed to a dictionary of 'Orthography' + 'transcription' or other types (which I ...
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Verification of R. Dixon's bound/free split prediction
In his book, 'Ergativity', R. Dixon makes a prediction on page 95:
if there is a split between bound and free forms, the former will
follow an accusative pattern, the latter - an ergative pattern.
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Georgian "suffixal nominal marker"
Let me conjugate აშენება asheneba "to build" as an example.
In the present indicative:
ვაშენებ v-a-shen-eb-Ø "I build"
აშენებ Ø-a-shen-eb-Ø "you build"
აშენებს Ø-a-shen-...
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What grammatical number is assigned to noun phrases formed by the conjunction "and"?
In a language with number agreement on determiners, would the phrase "the good boy and girl" have an adjective and article that is marked as plural since "the" and "good" ...
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Any morphemes that affect valency and aspect?
I'll give an example of what I mean by this. In Tongan, there is a verbal suffix -'i that can either introduce a new argument or seemingly alter the aspect of the verb.
In (1) below, ‘the girl’ is an ...
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What is the leipzig convention for glossing nonce words?
How do you gloss nonce words (words which are created for a single occasion and have no meaning on their own) in interlinear glossing?
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How common is it for languages in contact to exchange inflectional morphemes?
So languages in contact will of course borrow vocabulary from each other. And languages in contact for a really long time might converge on a common sentence structure or other morphological typology -...
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Does the morphological analysis of complex words acknowledge/allow multiple derivations?
I have been watching videos in Youtube concerning the morphological composition of complex words, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQKJNBAbYqM. Phrase structure (as opposed to dependency structure)...
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Are there specified names for categories of morphemes (or words that can combine with morphemes) in morphotactics?
Morphotactics is the study of the rules in a language by which morphemes are allowed to combine.
So at least in how I think of if, morphotactics is like grammar, but at the level of morphemes instead ...
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Is -ing a derivational suffix in leading?
If leading is used as an adjective here,is -ing a derivational suffix or is it only an inflectional suffix?
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In Russian, why can a multisyllabic second declension noun stressed on the last syllable not get a plural in -а?
There are a few hundred nouns of the second declension in Russian that do not have a nominative plural in the expected -ы but rather in -а, e.g. город-города. This ending is also invariably stressed.
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Is it common for languages to incorporate hortative modality when there is one speaker present? i.e. talking to themselves?
I am an undergrad working with a papuan language. There is one sentence that was in the data that has me wondering about hortatives.
The sentence, in english, translates to “Okay, I’ll just leave.” ...
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