Word-and-Paradigm morphology in HPSG

[Nerbonne J.]

I think a paper exploring how W&P might or might not
be used with HPSG would be a valuable contribution.

I don't know W&P morphology well enough to see how it would
intermesh with HPSG, but it's safe to say that most of the
published work on lexical relations in HPSG does NOT assume
the existence of inflectional morphemes as signs beginning
with the sketchy remarks in Pollard and Sag, 1987, 1994,
which suggest a separate function responsible for form,
f_{3sg}.  An excellent overview of the different positions
may be found in Bouma, van Eynde and Flickinger's paper:

Gosse Bouma, Frank van Eynde, and Dan Flickinger.
      Constraint-based lexicons, 1998.

An online version is available at
      http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/  "Papers"  >  "1998"

Their discussion of my work with Uli Krieger will be interesting
to a W&P perspective as a bogeyman.  We did assume the existence
of inflectional morphemes that are independent signs.

John Nerbonne, Alfa-informatica
nerbonne at let.rug.nl
+31 50 363 58 15

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:42, Raúl Aranovich wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I would ike to get some references to current work on morphology in HPSG.
> In particular, I am interested in work that implements (or problematizes) a
> model based on the principles of Word-and-Paradigm morphology.
>
> In Word-and-Paradigm morphology (if I understand it correctly),
> morpho-phonological processes occur independently of 'derivational'
> processes that specify grammatical features or categories appropriate o a
> particular word. Thus, a latin verb will be specified for person, number,
> and tense, but thisis independent from the morpho-phonological rule that
> may add the bound form /-o/ to the stem if the verb is 1st person sg.
> present. This theory is explicitly non-Saussurean (or non-Bloomfieldian
> [?]), in that it denies the existence of inflectional morphemes as signs. I
> have the uncomfrtable feeling that this theory of morphology is also in
> conflict with the sign-based design of HPSG. If anyone has thought of these
> issues, I would appreciate your comments.
>
> Some time ago, Larisa Zlatic posted a query about morphology in HPSG, and
> she received a few answers. Among them, Takao Gunji mentioned current work
> on Japanesemorphology that treated morpho-phonological derivations 'in
> parallel' with morpholexical derivations. Does anyone know about that
> research project?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Raul