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Palmer, CoLi, UdS MSc Bridge Course, October 2011
Preliminaries
What is linguistics?
✦ systematic study of the principles governing the use of language
✦ theoretical lxcs: attempt to formalize the rules and structures behind language use
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Preliminaries
What is linguistics?
✦ systematic study of the principles governing the use of language
✦ theoretical lxcs: attempt to formalize the rules and structures behind language use
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When we talk about language:
• descriptive vs. prescriptive approaches• diachronic vs. synchronic study• competence vs. performance
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Human language
What makes something human (natural) language?
✦ creativity
✦ recursion
✦ arbitrary relationship between sound & meaning
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Human language
What makes something human (natural) language?
✦ creativity
✦ recursion
✦ arbitrary relationship between sound & meaning
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More than 6000 languages spoken in the world:
• 1M+ speakers: ̃200 • primarily (or only) spoken: more than 50%
• total # of lgs. rapidly decreasing
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What does it mean to know a language?
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What does it mean to know a language?
✦ sound system: possible sounds in the lg, how they can and cannot combine
✦ lexicon: associations of sounds with meanings, morphology
✦ grammar: structures and meaning
✦ social/pragmatic customs: personal and social strategies for language use
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What does it mean to know a language?
✦ sound system
✦ lexicon
✦ grammar
✦ social/pragmatic customs
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Our topic for today is morphology
• words & how they’re formed
• internal structure of word forms
• performing morphological analysis
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On Morphology
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Fundamentals:Word classes IMorphemes, affixation, terminology
Inflectional morphology:Morphological paradigmsRegular and irregular forms
Derivational morphology:Internal structure of wordsProductivity, compounds, etc.
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What does it mean to know a WORD?
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What does it mean to know a WORD?
✦ sound
✦ meaning
✦ syntactic category / POS
✦ orthography (maybe)
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What does it mean to know a WORD?
✦ sound
✦ meaning
✦ syntactic category / POS
✦ orthography (maybe)
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Mental lexical representation:
• associates sound with meaning
• includes information about grammatical status
• includes irregular forms
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On Morphology
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Fundamentals:Word classes IMorphemes, affixation, terminology
Inflectional morphology:Morphological paradigmsRegular and irregular forms
Derivational morphology:Internal structure of wordsProductivity, compounds, etc.
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Word classes I
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Content words
Function words
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Word classes I
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Content words
Function words
• play different roles in language• open vs. closed classes• function words in CoLi: stop words, author ID, etc.• POS categories (e.g. N, V, Prep, Adverb)• Q: are POS categories universal?
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Morphemes
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Morphology is the study of
• Internal structure of words
• Processes by which words are formed morphe = Greek “form”
-ology = “science of/branch of knowledge concerning”[Morphology is not etymology, lexicography, historical linguistics]
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Morphemes
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Internal structure of words is rule-governed
uneaten *eatenun
unintentional *intentionalun
Morphology is the study of
• Internal structure of words
• Processes by which words are formed morphe = Greek “form”
-ology = “science of/branch of knowledge concerning”[Morphology is not etymology, lexicography, historical linguistics]
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Morphemes
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Same form, different meanings
happier, darker, fancier
walker, rider, opener
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Morphemes
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Same form, different meanings
comparative -er e.g. happier, darker, fancier
agentive -er e.g. walker, rider, opener
cf. finger (not fing + -er!)
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Morphemes
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Same form, different meanings
comparative -er e.g. happier, darker, fancier
agentive -er e.g. walker, rider, opener
cf. finger (not fing + -er!)
note changes in spelling
allomorphy: same morpheme, different forms (e.g. actor)
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Morphemes
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Same form, different meanings
comparative -er e.g. happier, darker, fancier
agentive -er e.g. walker, rider, opener
cf. finger (not fing + -er!)
note changes in spelling
allomorphy: same morpheme, different forms (e.g. actor)
Same meaning, different forms
singer, songster “one who sings”
cf. monster (not monst + -er!)
** mental lexicon contains morphemes as well as words **
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Morphemes
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Morpheme = minimal unit of linguistic meaning
• arbitrary union of sound and meaning, or of sound and grammatical function
• cannot be further analyzed
• morphological knowledge has two components: individual morphemes & rules for their combination
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Morphemes
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Free vs. bound morphemes
free = able to stand alone
bound = unable to stand alone, mostly affixes
Morpheme = minimal unit of linguistic meaning
• arbitrary union of sound and meaning, or of sound and grammatical function
• cannot be further analyzed
• morphological knowledge has two components: individual morphemes & rules for their combination
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Affixation
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Morphologically complex words = root plus 1+ affix• roots do not always stand alone as words
painter, reread, conceive, linguist
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Affixation
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Morphologically complex words = root plus 1+ affix• roots do not always stand alone as words
painter, reread, conceive, linguist
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Affixation
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Morphologically complex words = root plus 1+ affix• roots do not always stand alone as words
painter, reread, conceive, linguist
• bound roots cannot occur in isolation ungainly/*gainly, downhearted/*hearted
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Affixation
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Morphologically complex words = root plus 1+ affix• roots do not always stand alone as words
• bound roots cannot occur in isolation
• root + affix = stem/base/word
• affixes precede, follow, interrupt, or envelope the roots, stems/bases they attach to
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Affixation
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Morphologically complex word = root plus 1+ affixes• roots do not always stand alone as words
• bound roots cannot occur in isolation
• root + affix = stem/base/word
• affixes precede, follow, interrupt, or envelope the roots, stems/bases they attach to
Types of affix (by position)• prefix
• suffix
• infix
• circumfix (aka discontinuous morpheme)
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Affixation
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Morphologically complex word = root plus 1+ affixes• roots do not always stand alone as words
• bound roots cannot occur in isolation
• root + affix = stem/base/word
• affixes precede, follow, interrupt, or envelope the roots, stems/bases they attach to
Types of affix (by position)• prefix premeditated,prejudice;bipolar,bisexual
• suffix sleeping,eating,running,climbing;typist,pianist,novelist;manly,sickly
• infix abso‐freakin‐lutely,Kalama‐freakin‐zoo
• circumfix (aka discontinuous morpheme) geliebt[German]
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Types of morphology
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Languages differ in type & extent of morphology
analytic
inflectional/fusional
agglutinating
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Types of morphology
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Ojibwe example
(6a) ininiw ogi:ba∫kizwa:an ininiw o- gi:- baa∫kizw -aa -an man 3p PST shoot 3p th-dir OBV ‘The man shot him/her.’
Languages differ in type & extent of morphology
analytic Chinese
inflectional/fusional
Latin, German, Mayan lgs, Semitic lgs
agglutinating Turkish, Ojibwe, many Native American lgs
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Types of morphology
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Languages differ in type & extent of morphology
analytic Chinese
inflectional/fusional
Latin, German, Mayan lgs, Semitic lgs
agglutinating Turkish, Ojibwe, many Native American lgs
Nearly all lgs have two types of affixes (by function) inflectional change words wrt grammatical status
derivational form new words
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On Morphology
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Fundamentals:Word classes IMorphemes, affixation, terminology
Inflectional morphology:Morphological paradigmsRegular and irregular forms
Derivational morphology:Internal structure of wordsProductivity, compounds, etc.
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Inflectional morphology
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Inflectional morphemes• bound morphemes, strictly grammatical function!
• add no lexical meaning
• never change POS (grammatical category) of stems
• are highly productive
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Inflectional morphology
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Inflectional morphemes• bound morphemes, strictly grammatical function!
• add no lexical meaning
• never change POS (grammatical category) of stems
• are highly productive
Morphological paradigm• set of related inflectional morphemes
• relevant for single grammatical category case paradigm [der, den, dem, des +s] verb agreement paradigm [walk, walks] verb tense paradigm [walk, walked, has walked]
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English inflectional morphology
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Relatively impoverished wrt inflectional morphology
-s 3rd person singular present Verb
-ed past tense Verb
-ing progressive (aspect) Verb
-s plural Noun
-’s possessive Noun
-er comparative Adjective
-est superlative Adjective
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Regularity, exceptions, and suppletion
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Inflection is quite regular in English• with regularity, rules rather than forms stored in lexicon
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Some irregular forms• plurals: goose-geese, moose-moose, mouse-mice
• past tense verb forms: go-went, think-thought, bring-brought, sing-sang, is-was
• ** also variation ** : thin-thinner, right-more right
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Regularity, exceptions, and suppletion
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Inflection is quite regular in English• with regularity, rules rather than forms stored in lexicon
• children go through overgeneralization stage
• irregular/suppletive forms require individual learning and “storage” CoLi: lookup or rule writing?
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Some irregular forms• plurals: goose-geese, moose-moose, mouse-mice
• past tense verb forms: go-went, think-thought, bring-brought, sing-sang, is-was
• ** also variation ** : thin-thinner, right-more right
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Regularity, exceptions, and suppletion
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Inflection is quite regular in English• with regularity, rules rather than forms stored in lexicon
• children go through overgeneralization stage
• irregular/suppletive forms require individual learning and “storage” CoLi: lookup or rule writing?
• new words entering lg generally inflect regularly
Some irregular forms• plurals: goose-geese, moose-moose, mouse-mice
• past tense verb forms: go-went, think-thought, bring-brought, sing-sang, is-was
• ** also variation ** : thin-thinner, right-more right
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On Morphology
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Fundamentals:Word classes IMorphemes, affixation, terminology
Inflectional morphology:Morphological paradigmsRegular and irregular forms
Derivational morphology:Internal structure of wordsProductivity, compounds, etc.
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Derivational morphology
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Derivational morphemes• adding to base derives new word w/ new meaning
• clear semantic content
• often change POS (grammatical category) of stems
• vary in their productivity
• may trigger phonological changes (specific/specificity)
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Derivational morphology
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Derivational morphemes• adding to base derives new word w/ new meaning
• clear semantic content
• often change POS (grammatical category) of stems
• vary in their productivity
• may trigger phonological changes (specific/specificity)
• in Eng, derivational processes apply before inflectional
Examples in English?• noun --> verb; noun --> adjective; noun --> noun
• verb --> noun; verb --> adjective; verb --> verb
• adjective --> noun; adjective --> adverb, adj --> adj
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Recap: types of English morphemes
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Hierarchical structure of words
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Derivational morphemes• morphemes are added in a fixed order
• order reflects hierarchical structure of the word
• structure to some extent determines meaning
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Hierarchical structure of words
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Derivational morphemes• morphemes are added in a fixed order
• order reflects hierarchical structure of the word
• structure to some extent determines meaning
Derivational process• derive ‘unsystematically’
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Structural ambiguity in morphology
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Productivity & lexical gaps
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Rule productivity• fully productive rules “can be used freely to form new
words from the list of free and bound morphemes”
• usually can predict meaning of morphologically complex words; exceptions need individual entries in the mental lexicon (e.g. unnerve, unearth)
• back-formations are cute too! (e.g. monokini)
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Productivity & lexical gaps
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Rule productivity• fully productive rules “can be used freely to form new
words from the list of free and bound morphemes”
• usually can predict meaning of morphologically complex words; exceptions need individual entries in the mental lexicon (e.g. unnerve, unearth)
• back-formations are cute too! (e.g. monokini)
Lexical gaps• no language exhausts all logical possibilities for words
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• some have phonological grounds (*inpossible, *imdestructible)
• others are seemingly accidental
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Compounds
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Compounding robust process in most lgs • two or more words combined to form new word
• head of compound influences meaning & POS
• English compounds headed by rightmost word
• meaning is often non-compositional, even idiomatic (e.g. blackboard, looking glass, turncoat)
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Compounds
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Compounding robust process in most lgs • two or more words combined to form new word
• head of compound influences meaning & POS
• English compounds headed by rightmost word
• meaning is often non-compositional, even idiomatic (e.g. blackboard, looking glass, turncoat)
Examples in English?• noun-noun compound
• adj-adj compound
• verb-noun compound
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Structural ambiguity in compounds
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Morphological Analysis
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Morphological analysis
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Computationally, often refers to: • morphological segmentation
• morpheme glossing/tagging/labeling
In linguistics:• understanding morphology of new language
• identifying morphemes and their meanings
• identifying underlying morphological processes
• morphology problems!
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Zulu morphology problem
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umfazi “married woman” abafazi “married women”umfani “boy” abafani “boys”umzali “parent” abazali “parents”umfundisi “teacher” abafundisi “teachers”umbazi “carver” ababazi “carvers”umlimi “farmer” abalimi “farmers”umfundi “reader” abafundi “readers”
fundisa “to teach” funda “to read”lima “to cultivate” baza “to carve”
• what is the singular morpheme in Zulu?
• what is the plural morpheme?
• what is the process for deriving a verb from a noun?
• what is the stem meaning ‘read’? ‘carve’?
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