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标题：Monotonicity as an effective theory of morphosyntactic variation
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作者：Thomas Graf
期刊名称：Journal of Language Modelling
印刷版ISSN：2299-856X
电子版ISSN：2299-8470
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：3-47
DOI：10.15398/jlm.v7i2.211
语种：English
出版社：Polish Academy of Sciences
摘要：One of the major goals of linguistics is to delineate the possible range of variation across languages.Recent work has identified a surprising number of typological gaps in a variety of domains.In morphology,this includes stem suppletion,person pronoun syncretism,case syncretism,and noun stem allomorphy.In morphosyntax,only a small number of all conceivable Person Case Constraints and Gender Case Constraints are found.While various proposals have been put for_ward for each individual domain,few attempts have been made to give a unified explanation of the limited typology across all domains.This paper presents a novel account that deliberately abstracts away from the usual details of grammatical description in order to provide a domain-agnostic explanation of the limits of typological variation.This is achieved by combining prominence hierarchies,e.g.for person and case,with mappings from those hierarchies to the relevant output forms.As the mappings are required to be monotonic,only a fraction of all conceivable patterns can be instantiated.
关键词：monotonic functions;syncretism;typology;∗ABAgeneralization;Person Case Constraint;Gender Case Constraint