Internal Linguistic and/or External Factors in Inflectional Changes in Slovenian Historical Morphology

Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

Simulating Developmental Patterns in the Cross-linguistic Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology

We present a connectionist model of a general system for producing inflected words. The Multiple Inflection Generator (MIG) combines elements of several previous models (e.g., multiple inflections for a grammatical class: Hoeffner & McClelland, 1993; lexical-semantic input: Joanisse & Seidenberg, 1999; multiple grammatical classes: Plunkett & Juola, 1999). MIG assumes that the goal of this comp...

External and Internal Factors in Sexual Activity

There is a seasonal cycle of sexual activity for all species of birds. It is more or less pronounced according to the species, and it is primarily controlled by the external factor of light, the daily duration and intensity of which vary during -the year, the minimum amount of light being present on December 21, while the maximum is reached on June 21 in the northern hemisphere. Rowan54 was the...

Internal and External Factors in Innovation Persistence

This paper contributes the analysis of the persistence of innovation activities, as measured by total factor productivity (TFP) and explores its internal and external determinants stressing its path dependent characteristics. The external conditions, namely the quality of local knowledge pools and the strength of the Schumpeterian rivalry, together with the internal conditions, that is the actu...

Degrees of grammatical productivity in inflectional morphology

This paper focusses on grammatical productivity as constitutive property of a model of dynamic morphology (in contrast to overlapping static morphology, which is unproductive). Grammatical productivity is located in the potential system of grammar (here exemplified with inflectional morphology) as opposed to type frequency belonging to the level of language as social institution and to token fr...