Paradigm structure and predictability in Latin inflection : an entropy-based approach / Matteo Pellegrini.
2023
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Title
Paradigm structure and predictability in Latin inflection : an entropy-based approach / Matteo Pellegrini.
Author
Pellegrini, Matteo, author.
ISBN
9783031248443 (electronic bk.)
3031248449 (electronic bk.)
9783031248436 (print)
3031248449 (electronic bk.)
9783031248436 (print)
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-24844-3 doi
Call Number
PA2133
Dewey Decimal Classification
478
Summary
Latin paradigms are almost proverbially known, and they have often been used as a test case for different theoretical approaches to morphological complexity. This book analyses them in a completely word-based perspective, using a recently developed information-theoretic methodology, making entropy-based techniques of analysis available to a wider readership. By doing so, it shows the relevance of traditional notions like principal parts, giving them a more principled, data-driven formulation. Furthermore, it suggests enhancements to the standard information-theoretic methodology, allowing to account for the role of external factors -- like gender and derivational information -- in improving predictability between inflected word forms. This book is useful to morphologists, that will see ideas and techniques taken from the current debate on morphological theory tested on complex phenomena of a language as renowned as Latin. It is also helpful for scholars working in both Latin and Romance linguistics: the former will find a freely available lexical resource and a novel description of Latin paradigms, that can be exploited by the latter to draw a comparison with recent analyses of the inflectional morphology of several Romance languages.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 5, 2023).
Series
Studies in morphology ; v. 6. 2214-0050
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The theoretical framework
Chapter 2. The method
Chapter 3. The data and the tools
Chapter 4. Predictability and paradigm organization in Latin verb inflection
Chapter 5. Predictability in Latin noun inflection and the role of gender
Chapter 6. The impact of derivational relatedness on inflectional predictions
Chapter 7. Conclusions.
Chapter 2. The method
Chapter 3. The data and the tools
Chapter 4. Predictability and paradigm organization in Latin verb inflection
Chapter 5. Predictability in Latin noun inflection and the role of gender
Chapter 6. The impact of derivational relatedness on inflectional predictions
Chapter 7. Conclusions.