30.2615, Books: Analogical classification in formal grammar: Guzmán Naranjo

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Subject: 30.2615, Books: Analogical classification in formal grammar: Guzmán Naranjo

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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:41:09
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Analogical classification in formal grammar: Guzmán Naranjo

Title: Analogical classification in formal grammar 
Series Title: Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/186 

Author: Matías Guzmán Naranjo

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101863 Pages: 256 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access

Abstract:

The organization of the lexicon, and especially the relations between groups
of lexemes is a strongly debated topic in linguistics. Some authors have
insisted on the lack of any structure of the lexicon. In this vein, Di Sciullo
& Williams (1987: 3) claim that “[t]he lexicon is like a prison – it contains
only the lawless, and the only thing that its inmates have in common is
lawlessness”. In the alternative view, the lexicon is assumed to have a rich
structure that captures all regularities and partial regularities that exist
between lexical entries.Two very different schools of linguistics have
insisted on the organization of the lexicon.

On the one hand, for theories like HPSG (Pollard & Sag 1994), but also some
versions of construction grammar (Fillmore & Kay 1995), the lexicon is assumed
to have a very rich structure which captures common grammatical properties
between its members. In this approach, a type hierarchy organizes the lexicon
according to common properties between items. For example, Koenig (1999: 4,
among others), working from an HPSG perspective, claims that the lexicon
“provides a unified model for partial regularties, medium-size
generalizations, and truly productive processes”.

On the other hand, from the perspective of usage-based linguistics, several
authors have drawn attention to the fact that lexemes which share
morphological or syntactic properties, tend to be organized in clusters of
surface (phonological or semantic) similarity (Bybee & Slobin 1982; Skousen
1989; Eddington 1996). This approach, often called analogical, has developed
highly accurate computational and non-computational models that can predict
the classes to which lexemes belong. Like the organization of lexemes in type
hierarchies, analogical relations between items help speakers to make sense of
intricate systems, and reduce apparent complexity (Köpcke & Zubin 1984).

Despite this core commonality, and despite the fact that most linguists seem
to agree that analogy plays an important role in language, there has been
remarkably little work on bringing together these two approaches. Formal
grammar traditions have been very successful in capturing grammatical
behaviour, but, in the process, have downplayed the role analogy plays in
linguistics (Anderson 2015). In this work, I aim to change this state of
affairs. First, by providing an explicit formalization of how analogy
interacts with grammar, and second, by showing that analogical effects and
relations closely mirror the structures in the lexicon. I will show that both
formal grammar approaches, and usage-based analogical models, capture mutually
compatible relations in the lexicon.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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