Alignment and locality in the typology of affixing language games

Bibliographic Data

ID20344397
AuthorsMartin Kramer (0000-0002-2560-2679, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author), Barbara Vogt (0000-0002-7312-0244, University of Trieste)
Year2018
Volume35
Issue1
Pages83-120
Publication date2018-01-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlr-2017-0018
OpenAlexW2791628745
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

This paper contributes to the discussion around the (extra-)grammatical status of language games (or ludlings). We collected over 60 games which are based on the affixation of a dummy morpheme, which is infixed and iterated in most cases. While some are obviously reduplicative, closer investigation reveals that all the games involving iterativity function like reduplication. Our optimality-theoretic analysis concentrates on the explanation of shape, segmental content, placement and iterativity of the dummy affix and employs only constraints standardly assumed in the literature on reduplication. We show that no ludling-specific constraints or stipulations are necessary to account for this typology and make predictions on limitations that presumably apply to typological variation with regard to language games. Ludlings are thus variations of grammatical constraint rankings

Affix · Iterated function · Linguistic typology · Linguistics · Locality · Morpheme · Natural language processing · Optimality theory · Phonology · Reduplication · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation