Flexemes in theory and in practice
Modelling overabundance in Latin verb paradigms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4580865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maura Pellegrini (0000-0003-4378-5824, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-395 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Morphology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1871-5621 • E-ISSN: 1871-5656 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11525-023-09414-7 |
| OpenAlex | W4384561212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper provides an in-depth investigation of the possibility of systematically using flexemes - i.e., lexical units characterized in terms of form, as opposed to lexemes, characterized in terms of meaning - to model overabundance - i.e., the availability of more than one form in the same paradigm cell. The starting point is a preliminary evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of using flexemes to account for different overabundance phenomena, showing that flexemes are a good way to capture the systematicity of overabundance, either across lexemes or across cells. Consequently, it is suggested that flexemes can be an interesting technical solution for the creation of a lexicon of Latin verbs that not only documents all the competing wordforms available as principal parts, but also captures the systematic relationship that sometimes holds between variants filling different cells. A principled method to identify such systematicity is then described in detail. It is argued that a constructive approach based on the identity of stems and/or inflection class is not fully adequate for the data at hand. Therefore, the proposed procedure adopts an abstractive, word-based perspective that only relies on alternation patterns between unsegmented wordforms. Practical and theoretical implications of the work are finally discussed, particularly regarding the usefulness of a formal approach to the identification of lexical units and paradigm cells
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