Olivier Bonami
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 747029 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Olivier Bonami |
| PRENOMES | Olivier |
| SOBRENOME | Bonami |
| ASSINATURA | BONAMI O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0688-3855 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Morphologie implicative et conjugaison du français
Cet article retrace l’évolution de l’étude de la conjugaison française depuis l’approche thématique de Bonami & Boyé (2003) jusqu’aux approches implicatives contemporaines. Face aux difficultés structurelles de l’approche thématique, l’approche implicative adopte une perspective abstractive et probabiliste quantifiant les relations d’inter-prédictibilité entre formes fléchies. Deux études empiriques valident cette approche théorique : une analyse…
Diminutives and the architecure of grammar
It’s time for a complete theory of partial predictability in language
Given the centrality of partial predictability to linguistic experience, it plays a strikingly minor role in theoretical linguistics. For many, partial predictability is to be set aside: the job of linguistic theory is to explain the infinite generative capacity of language and the semantic compositionality that accompanies it. For others, partial predictability is evidence that such an approach is missing the point. But surprisingly little atten…
Baseless derivation
Standard accounts of derivational morphology assume that it is incremental: some words are formed on the basis of others, and each derivational family has a base from which all of the other words are derived. The importance of the base has been questioned by paradigmatic approaches to morphology, which posit that word systems are about multidirectional relationships between words and paradigm cells, in which no word has a privileged status. This …
Derivation predicting inflection
In this paper, we investigate the value of derivational information in predicting the inflectional behavior of lexemes. We focus on Latin, for which large-scale data on both inflection and derivation are easily available. We train boosting tree classifiers to predict the inflection class of verbs and nouns with and without different pieces of derivational information. For verbs, we also model inflectional behavior in a word-based fashion, trainin…
Overabundance and inflectional classification
Overabundance is the situation where two or more distinct word forms fill the same cell in an inflectional paradigm (Thornton 2011). While this topic has received renewed attention in recent years, there are still several open questions regarding its properties and status. In this paper we present a new take on the matter. On the basis of a case study of the locative singular and instrumental plural of Czech nouns, we argue that there are at leas…
Forces et faiblesses des contraintes de liage
Les possessifs emphatiques de l’anglais et du français et les possessifs réfléchis de l’estonien partagent une caractéristique : ils favorisent un antécédent local. Cependant, les raisons de cette préférence locale sont très différentes : pour le réfléchi, il s’agit d’une contrainte syntaxique – être lié par un sujet structuralement proche –, tandis que, dans le cas des emphatiques, c’est un effet indirect de leurs propriétés interprétatives qui …
Paradigm structure and predictability in derivational morphology
Linguistic prescription, ideological structure, and the actuation of linguistic changes
We present a quantitative study of the linguistic and social factors conditioning the use of grammatical gender with reference to women, focusing on variation in the debates of the French parliament. Two prime ministers of similar political leanings regulated the use of feminine g-gender through identical policies in 1986 and 1998, with no effect on parliamentary speech in the first instance, and dramatic success in the second. We claim that the …
Computational methods for descriptive and theoretical morphology
Variable morphotactics in Information-based Morphology
We address variable morphotactics, the phenomenon of order variability of morphs, in the context of inflectional morphology. Based on an extended discussion of cross-linguistic variation, including conjugation in Nepali, Fula, Swahili, Chintang and Italian, and nominal declension in Ostyak and Mari, we propose a canonical typology that identifies different deviations from strict ordering. Following a discussion of previous approaches to the probl…
Forthcoming articles
A perceptual cue constraint approach to postnasal laryngeal alternations
Periphrasis as collocation
The diversity of inflectional periphrasis in Persian
Modern Persian conjugation makes use of five periphrastic constructions with typologically divergent properties. This makes the Persian conjugation system an ideal testing ground for theories of inflectional periphrasis, since different types of periphrasis can be compared within the frame of a single grammatical system. We present contrasting analyses of the five constructions within the general framework of a lexicalist constraint-based grammat…
Quelle syntaxe, incidemment, pour les adverbes incidents
Nous nous appuyons sur les donnees du francais pour etudier les proprietes des adverbes en fonction d'ajouts incidents (ou plus simplement, adverbes incidents), et ce qui les oppose a celles des adverbes ordinaires, integres ; puis nous montrons brievement comment ils peuvent etre pris en compte dans une grammaire. L'incidence est une propriete des occurrences, et non des items lexicaux : il n'y a donc pas de correlation avec des classes semantiq…
Sur la grammaire des consonnes latentes
Liaison in French is commonly described as involving a "latent" consonant whose realization or suppression is determined by contextual factors. This is an oversimplified view of the phenomenon, but liaison consonants (when pronounced) do have distinctive properties that call for a special treatment. Furthermore, the same notion of latent consonant appears to be relevant for morphological derivation. In this paper we offer a new formalization that…
Sur la grammaire des consonnes latentes
Liaison in French is commonly described as involving a "latent" consonant whose realization or suppression is determined by contextual factors. This is an oversimplified view of the phenomenon, but liaison consonants (when pronounced) do have distinctive properties that call for a special treatment. Furthermore, the same notion of latent consonant appears to be relevant for morphological derivation. In this paper we offer a new formalization that…
Supplétion et classes flexionnelles
This article presents a detailed analysis of suppletion phenomena in French conjugation. The analysis rests on the postulation of a network of dependency relations between the various stems of a verb lexeme. We then discuss the relevance on inflectional classes to the description of French conjugation; we conclude that there is no compelling case in favor of inflectional classes of French verbs
Paradigm structure and predictability in derivational morphology
Computational methods for descriptive and theoretical morphology
Periphrasis as collocation
Variable morphotactics in Information-based Morphology
We address variable morphotactics, the phenomenon of order variability of morphs, in the context of inflectional morphology. Based on an extended discussion of cross-linguistic variation, including conjugation in Nepali, Fula, Swahili, Chintang and Italian, and nominal declension in Ostyak and Mari, we propose a canonical typology that identifies different deviations from strict ordering. Following a discussion of previous approaches to the probl…
Supplétion et classes flexionnelles
This article presents a detailed analysis of suppletion phenomena in French conjugation. The analysis rests on the postulation of a network of dependency relations between the various stems of a verb lexeme. We then discuss the relevance on inflectional classes to the description of French conjugation; we conclude that there is no compelling case in favor of inflectional classes of French verbs
Linguistic prescription, ideological structure, and the actuation of linguistic changes
We present a quantitative study of the linguistic and social factors conditioning the use of grammatical gender with reference to women, focusing on variation in the debates of the French parliament. Two prime ministers of similar political leanings regulated the use of feminine g-gender through identical policies in 1986 and 1998, with no effect on parliamentary speech in the first instance, and dramatic success in the second. We claim that the …
The diversity of inflectional periphrasis in Persian
Modern Persian conjugation makes use of five periphrastic constructions with typologically divergent properties. This makes the Persian conjugation system an ideal testing ground for theories of inflectional periphrasis, since different types of periphrasis can be compared within the frame of a single grammatical system. We present contrasting analyses of the five constructions within the general framework of a lexicalist constraint-based grammat…
Baseless derivation
Standard accounts of derivational morphology assume that it is incremental: some words are formed on the basis of others, and each derivational family has a base from which all of the other words are derived. The importance of the base has been questioned by paradigmatic approaches to morphology, which posit that word systems are about multidirectional relationships between words and paradigm cells, in which no word has a privileged status. This …
Sur la grammaire des consonnes latentes
Liaison in French is commonly described as involving a "latent" consonant whose realization or suppression is determined by contextual factors. This is an oversimplified view of the phenomenon, but liaison consonants (when pronounced) do have distinctive properties that call for a special treatment. Furthermore, the same notion of latent consonant appears to be relevant for morphological derivation. In this paper we offer a new formalization that…
Supplétion et classes flexionnelles
This article presents a detailed analysis of suppletion phenomena in French conjugation. The analysis rests on the postulation of a network of dependency relations between the various stems of a verb lexeme. We then discuss the relevance on inflectional classes to the description of French conjugation; we conclude that there is no compelling case in favor of inflectional classes of French verbs
Sur la grammaire des consonnes latentes
Liaison in French is commonly described as involving a "latent" consonant whose realization or suppression is determined by contextual factors. This is an oversimplified view of the phenomenon, but liaison consonants (when pronounced) do have distinctive properties that call for a special treatment. Furthermore, the same notion of latent consonant appears to be relevant for morphological derivation. In this paper we offer a new formalization that…
Sur la grammaire des consonnes latentes
Liaison in French is commonly described as involving a "latent" consonant whose realization or suppression is determined by contextual factors. This is an oversimplified view of the phenomenon, but liaison consonants (when pronounced) do have distinctive properties that call for a special treatment. Furthermore, the same notion of latent consonant appears to be relevant for morphological derivation. In this paper we offer a new formalization that…
Quelle syntaxe, incidemment, pour les adverbes incidents
Nous nous appuyons sur les donnees du francais pour etudier les proprietes des adverbes en fonction d'ajouts incidents (ou plus simplement, adverbes incidents), et ce qui les oppose a celles des adverbes ordinaires, integres ; puis nous montrons brievement comment ils peuvent etre pris en compte dans une grammaire. L'incidence est une propriete des occurrences, et non des items lexicaux : il n'y a donc pas de correlation avec des classes semantiq…
The diversity of inflectional periphrasis in Persian
Modern Persian conjugation makes use of five periphrastic constructions with typologically divergent properties. This makes the Persian conjugation system an ideal testing ground for theories of inflectional periphrasis, since different types of periphrasis can be compared within the frame of a single grammatical system. We present contrasting analyses of the five constructions within the general framework of a lexicalist constraint-based grammat…
Variable morphotactics in Information-based Morphology
We address variable morphotactics, the phenomenon of order variability of morphs, in the context of inflectional morphology. Based on an extended discussion of cross-linguistic variation, including conjugation in Nepali, Fula, Swahili, Chintang and Italian, and nominal declension in Ostyak and Mari, we propose a canonical typology that identifies different deviations from strict ordering. Following a discussion of previous approaches to the probl…
Forthcoming articles
A perceptual cue constraint approach to postnasal laryngeal alternations
Periphrasis as collocation
Computational methods for descriptive and theoretical morphology
Paradigm structure and predictability in derivational morphology
Linguistic prescription, ideological structure, and the actuation of linguistic changes
We present a quantitative study of the linguistic and social factors conditioning the use of grammatical gender with reference to women, focusing on variation in the debates of the French parliament. Two prime ministers of similar political leanings regulated the use of feminine g-gender through identical policies in 1986 and 1998, with no effect on parliamentary speech in the first instance, and dramatic success in the second. We claim that the …
Overabundance and inflectional classification
Overabundance is the situation where two or more distinct word forms fill the same cell in an inflectional paradigm (Thornton 2011). While this topic has received renewed attention in recent years, there are still several open questions regarding its properties and status. In this paper we present a new take on the matter. On the basis of a case study of the locative singular and instrumental plural of Czech nouns, we argue that there are at leas…
Forces et faiblesses des contraintes de liage
Les possessifs emphatiques de l’anglais et du français et les possessifs réfléchis de l’estonien partagent une caractéristique : ils favorisent un antécédent local. Cependant, les raisons de cette préférence locale sont très différentes : pour le réfléchi, il s’agit d’une contrainte syntaxique – être lié par un sujet structuralement proche –, tandis que, dans le cas des emphatiques, c’est un effet indirect de leurs propriétés interprétatives qui …
Derivation predicting inflection
In this paper, we investigate the value of derivational information in predicting the inflectional behavior of lexemes. We focus on Latin, for which large-scale data on both inflection and derivation are easily available. We train boosting tree classifiers to predict the inflection class of verbs and nouns with and without different pieces of derivational information. For verbs, we also model inflectional behavior in a word-based fashion, trainin…
It’s time for a complete theory of partial predictability in language
Given the centrality of partial predictability to linguistic experience, it plays a strikingly minor role in theoretical linguistics. For many, partial predictability is to be set aside: the job of linguistic theory is to explain the infinite generative capacity of language and the semantic compositionality that accompanies it. For others, partial predictability is evidence that such an approach is missing the point. But surprisingly little atten…
Baseless derivation
Standard accounts of derivational morphology assume that it is incremental: some words are formed on the basis of others, and each derivational family has a base from which all of the other words are derived. The importance of the base has been questioned by paradigmatic approaches to morphology, which posit that word systems are about multidirectional relationships between words and paradigm cells, in which no word has a privileged status. This …
Morphologie implicative et conjugaison du français
Cet article retrace l’évolution de l’étude de la conjugaison française depuis l’approche thématique de Bonami & Boyé (2003) jusqu’aux approches implicatives contemporaines. Face aux difficultés structurelles de l’approche thématique, l’approche implicative adopte une perspective abstractive et probabiliste quantifiant les relations d’inter-prédictibilité entre formes fléchies. Deux études empiriques valident cette approche théorique : une analyse…
Diminutives and the architecure of grammar
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Linguistics (13 obras) · Philosophy (12 obras) · Mathematics (10 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 obras) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Inflection (5 obras)