Heteroclisis and Paradigm Linkage

Heteroclisis is the property of a lexeme whose inflectional paradigm involves two or more distinct inflection classes. Although heteroclisis is widely observable, its implications for grammatical theory remain underexplored, perhaps because its canon instances have the appearance of sporadic lexical...

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Published in:Language (Baltimore) 2006-06, Vol.82 (2), p.279-322
Main Author: Stump, Gregory T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjectives
Descriptive studies and applied theories
Grammar
Grammatical conjugation
Grammatical gender
Heteroclisis
Inflection
Language use
Lexeme
Lexemes
Linguistic inflection
Linguistic theory
Linguistics
Locative case
Masculinity
Morphology
Nouns
Paradigms
Syntactics
Syntax
Verbs
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Summary:Heteroclisis is the property of a lexeme whose inflectional paradigm involves two or more distinct inflection classes. Although heteroclisis is widely observable, its implications for grammatical theory remain underexplored, perhaps because its canon instances have the appearance of sporadic lexical exceptions. But heteroclisis cannot be assumed to lack any role in the definition of a language's morphology, since (i) it is sometimes highly systematic, involving whole classes of lexemes, and (ii) it obeys a universal constraint. These two facts show that heteroclisis is rulegoverned. On the assumption that inflectional morphology involves a linkage of content-paradigms with form-paradigms (Stump 2002), heteroclisis can be seen as a kind of mismatch regulated by rules of paradigm linkage. Such rules account for the range of empirical phenomena subsumed by observations (i) and (ii).
ISSN:0097-8507
1535-0665
1535-0665
DOI:10.1353/lan.2006.0110