Morphological complexity in the ‘Germanic Sandwich’
- Morphological structure is not a given. Whether speakers perceive and linguists analyze words such as splendid, bombard, whiting, ugly, happy, or struggle as morphologically complex or not can depend on a variety of factors. Contrastive research on related languages reveals the central importance of relationality: the availability of other lexical items with some amount of shared structure. An intuitively simple notion, relationality is not trivial if we try to put it on a systematic footing. When are two structures perceived as the same? What does this mean for our theoretical understanding of morphological knowledge? In this talk, I discuss these and related questions with data from the ‘Germanic sandwich’: English, Dutch and German. I use the framework of Relational Morphology (Jackendoff/ Audring 2020), a construction-based approach to the grammar of words, to make sense of situations where morphological structure is ambiguous or questionable
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| Author: | Jenny AudringORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-123025 |
| URL: | https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14618/f8rt-m155 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-937241-96-8 |
| Parent Title (English): | 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), 18-21 July, 2023, Mannheim, Germany |
| Publisher: | IDS-Verlag |
| Place of publication: | Mannheim |
| Editor: | Beata Trawinski, Marc Kupietz, Kristel ProostGND, Jörg ZinkenORCiDGND |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/11/13 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Germanic languages; Morphology; construction grammar |
| GND Keyword: | Germanische Sprachen; Konstruktionsgrammatik; Morphologie <Linguistik> |
| First Page: | 37 |
| Last Page: | 37 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Kontrastive Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Morphologie |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland |