Ideal and real paradigms
Language users, reference works and corpora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12197101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Bermel (0000-0002-1663-9322, University of Sheffield , Sheffield , UK, corresponding author), Luděk Knittl (University of Sheffield , Sheffield , UK), Martin Alldrick (University of Surrey , Guildford , UK), Alexandre Nikolaev (0000-0001-8634-5947, University of Eastern Finland , Joensuu , Finland) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-219 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/cog-2023-0032 |
| OpenAlex | W4392503345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article approaches defective and overabundant paradigm cells as an opportunity and pitfall for usage-based linguistics. Through reference to two production tasks involving native speakers of Czech, we show how definitions of these two categories are problematized when multiple forms per context are entrenched, or when pre-emption seems to occur in the absence of entrenchment: in other words, pre-emption occurs via entrenchment of uncertainty. We explain the results by adopting a broader, usage-based perspective. We examine the relationship between frequency (as proxy for exposure) and reference-work information (as proxy for a priori structure) to assess their connection with our experimental results. We assign a role to frequency as helping to form perceptions of “suitable” and “unsuitable” forms, but also note places where non-frequency factors predominate. “Structure” as represented by reference-work recommendations appears to have no significant connection to our experimental results; we discuss reasons for this
Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
The Price of Linguistic Productivity
Estimating psychological networks and their accuracy
Overabundance and inflectional classification
Historical observations on defectiveness
Morphosyntactic variation and syntactic constructions in Czech nominal declension
On the Rise of Suppletion in Verbal Paradigms
Lexicographer’s Lacunas or How to Deal with Missing Representative Dictionary Forms on the Example of Czech
Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption
Explaining uncertainty and defectivity of inflectional paradigms
Canonical Typology, Suppletion, and Possible Words
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |