Erich R. Round
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199654871
- eISBN:
- 9780191745560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654871.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Theoretical Linguistics
Chapter 4 lays the major conceptual foundations for the analysis of inflection and syntax in Chapters 5–9. The inventory of morphosyntactic features and values is introduced. A review of ...
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Chapter 4 lays the major conceptual foundations for the analysis of inflection and syntax in Chapters 5–9. The inventory of morphosyntactic features and values is introduced. A review of morphological realization is given focusing on inflectional morphology. Restrictions on feature co-occurrence and the blocking of realization by other features is introduced and its centrality to the analysis of the dual tense system is noted. A notion of concord is set out, whereby features percolate from a higher syntactic node to all lower nodes within a non-surface syntactic tree whose general structure is noted in anticipation of arguments in later chapters. The loci of empirical evidence for the analysis of syntax are identified. Morphological and syntactic word classes and phrasal categories are set out.Less
Chapter 4 lays the major conceptual foundations for the analysis of inflection and syntax in Chapters 5–9. The inventory of morphosyntactic features and values is introduced. A review of morphological realization is given focusing on inflectional morphology. Restrictions on feature co-occurrence and the blocking of realization by other features is introduced and its centrality to the analysis of the dual tense system is noted. A notion of concord is set out, whereby features percolate from a higher syntactic node to all lower nodes within a non-surface syntactic tree whose general structure is noted in anticipation of arguments in later chapters. The loci of empirical evidence for the analysis of syntax are identified. Morphological and syntactic word classes and phrasal categories are set out.
Erich R. Round
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199654871
- eISBN:
- 9780191745560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654871.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Theoretical Linguistics
Chapter 8 presents a formal model of feature percolation, the mechanism by which features are distributed across appropriate terminal nodes in the non-surface syntactic tree, resulting in concord. It ...
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Chapter 8 presents a formal model of feature percolation, the mechanism by which features are distributed across appropriate terminal nodes in the non-surface syntactic tree, resulting in concord. It first discusses the needs of the realizational morphological component, which will act on the representations generated via percolation in order to calculate correct morphological forms. A discussion shows that the formal properties of percolation needed to account for the blocking of one feature by another, and for feature ordering, can be unified. A simple, iterative algorithm is adduced for percolation and examples are given.Less
Chapter 8 presents a formal model of feature percolation, the mechanism by which features are distributed across appropriate terminal nodes in the non-surface syntactic tree, resulting in concord. It first discusses the needs of the realizational morphological component, which will act on the representations generated via percolation in order to calculate correct morphological forms. A discussion shows that the formal properties of percolation needed to account for the blocking of one feature by another, and for feature ordering, can be unified. A simple, iterative algorithm is adduced for percolation and examples are given.
