In this paper, we compare different ways to annotate both syntactic and morphological relations in a dependency treebank. We propose new formats we call mSUD and mUD, compatible with the Universal Dependencies (UD) schema for syntactic treebanks. We emphasize on mSUD rather than mUD, the former bein...
Dans cette thèse, j'étudie la distribution des formes pronominales faibles du français sous une perspective nouvelle. En partant des travaux sur le statut d'affixes lexicaux de ces formes (Miller, 1992 ; Auger, 1993, 1994, 1995), je propose que la conclusion logique de ce résultat est de traiter la...
I demonstrate that in many languages of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa vowel qualities of functional morphemes tend to be neutralized through raising, fronting and unrounding towards /i/, similarly to what has been described by Idiatov (2020:65) for the TAM and polarity markers of Greater Manding langu...
As the most prolific of the Church Fathers, John Chrysostom (344-407 CE) has a vast textual mass and theological importance that has led to a significant misattribution of texts, resulting in the existence of a second corpus known as the pseudo-Chrysostomian corpus. Like many Greek-language Church F...
This paper is the first survey of verbal affixes encoding the day period ('at night','in the morning' etc) or the yearly seasons ('in winter' etc) when the main action takes place. It introduces the term 'periodic tense' to refer to this comparative concept, explores the attested paradigms, their in...
I demonstrate that in many languages of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa vowel qualities of functional morphemes tend to be neutralized through raising, fronting and unrounding towards /i/, similarly to what has been described by Idiatov (2020:65) for the TAM and polarity markers of Greater Manding langu...
What exactly is a word? How can we distinguish morphology (= word structure) from syntax? How do we tell phrases apart from complex words, and clitics from affixes? In my 2011 paper (“The indeterminacy of word segmentation”) I said that we don’t know: The various criteria that we typically use do no...
Notre récente participation au colloque de la chaire Unesco « Orientation tout au long de la vie » de Wroclaw en Pologne nous a rappelé l’urgence à repenser les principes éthiques de conseils et d’accompagnement en éducation et formation. En effet, si nous avons à nous adapter à un monde du travail...
by Hélène Gérardin When we hear of agglutination, we think of crowds, cells or grains, but certainly not of languages. However, languages too can agglutinate things, and in a surprisingly complex way! If a language is agglutinative, it means it can string together bits of significant grammatical inf...
It is a widespread stereotype that cliticization is an intermediate stage between free lexeme and affix status, and many overview texts and textbooks present a scale such as the following: content item grammatical word clitic inflectional affix ( Ø) For example, Spencer & Luís (2012: §2.1) say that...
This is the first grammatical sketch of Keeraak (also referenced as Keeraku or Her), an Atlantic language belonging to the Joola cluster and spoken in the Kabrousse village, Casamance, South-West Senegal,Keeraak shares with other Atlantic languages several morpho-syntactic features such as its rich...
This paper is a typologically-informed description of 19 verbal affixes that express, as part of their primary meanings, notions of motion or posture in Tacana, an endangered and poorly described language from the Takanan family. I will argue that these affixes express associated motion (AM), a now...
Affix rivalry is defined as the phenomenon of morphological competition where affixes and meaning are in a many-to-one relationship. Because of their poor semantic content, demonyms are perfect candidates for the investigation of selectional constraints in such a context. Indeed the morphological pr...
Associated motion is a grammatical category which modifies a verbal predicate by adding a motion component such as indicating that motion took place prior to the event predicated by the verb. Many languages express prior associated motion ('go and V') in the form of a serial verb construction, while...
Many linguists have the intuition that affixes are “attached” to their bases, and we often informally use metaphorical terms such as “fused”, “cohering” and “tightly linked”. There is nothing to be said against metaphors in technical terminology, but do these expressions have a precise meaning? Sinc...
As much as scholars of Baltic Studies always claim independence for the languages and literature it involves, it is evident that the Baltic and Slavic languages and literature have been and still are in latent contact and exchange. The historical processes had led to interwoven but distinct cultural...
The Bikol language of the Philippines, spoken in the southernmost peninsula of Luzon Island and extending into the island provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate, is presented in this bilingual dictionary. An introduction explains the Bikol alphabet, orthographic representation (including policies adop...
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a morphological awareness intervention delivered by preschool teachers in the naturalistic setting of their classrooms. The participants were 162 Portuguese children, attending kindergarten who were allocated as groups to experimental and control conditions....
Cet article présente un nouveau corpus diachronique de la langue italienne : CODIT (COrpus Diacronico dell’ITaliano « Corpus diachronique de l’italien »). Après une description du corpus, la deuxième partie de l’article est consacrée à montrer les applications du corpus dans le domaine morphologique...
The present study used steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) to examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of reading morphologically complex words and test the neurophysiological activation pattern elicited by stems and suffixes. Three different types of target words were presented to proficient...
Empirical evidence from masked priming research shows that skilled readers can rapidly identify morphological structure in written language. However, comparatively little is known about how and when this skill is acquired in children. The present work investigates the developmental trajectory of mor...
A few weeks ago, a new paper of mine on bound forms and affixes was published by the journal Voprosy Jazykoznanija. This has long been the most important Russian linguistics journal, and it now publishes articles in English as well. Here’s an introduction to some of the key points of the paper (Hasp...
This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches to languag...