degrammaticalization is regarded as a process in which grams lose their grammatical properties. this process is attested in many languages of the world. its related findings have evidently weakened the claim of unidirectionality in grammaticalization. degrammation, deinflectionalization and debonding are among the major types of degrammaticalization established for this process of change (norde...

Morphological processing by French children was investigated in two experiments. The first showed that second and third graders read pseudowords such as chat-ure (cat-ish) composed of an illegally combined real stem and real derivational suffix faster and more accurately than they read matched pseudowords composed of a pseudostem and a real derivational suffix (e.g., chot-ure) or a pseudostem a...

Derivational analogy is a technique for reusing problem solving experience to improve problem solving performance. This research addresses an issue common to all problem solvers that use derivational analogy: overcoming the mismatches between past experiences and new problems that impede reuse. First, this research describes the variety of mismatches that can arise and proposes a new approach t...

Derivational models are still an underresearched area in computational morphology. Even for German, a rather resourcerich language, there is a lack of largecoverage derivational knowledge. This paper describes a rule-based framework for inducing derivational families (i.e., clusters of lemmas in derivational relationships) and its application to create a highcoverage German resource, DERIVBASE,...

This paper deals with morphosemantic relations between Croatian verbs and discusses their inclusion in Croatian WordNet. Morphosemantic relations refer to semantic relations between morphologically related verbs, i.e., between verbs from the same derivational family. A derivational family consists of verbs with the same lexical morpheme grouped around a base form. Generally, a verb with the sim...

Knowledge of derivational morphology potentially aids readers in the analysis and acquisition of new vocabulary, in lexical access and in establishing the syntactic structure of sentences. Although a number of studies have investigated the role of derivational morphology in acquiring vocabulary and in the organization of the internal lexicon, none have investigated the syntactic role of derivat...

The morphological paradigm as a theoretical construct has a central role in explaining inflectional word formation, particularly in Word & Paradigm approaches to morphology. In contrast, research into the role of paradigm in derivation has been programmatic as well as fragmentary. In this paper I investigate the extent to which patterns of relationships among derived words constitute a derivati...

In this paper we present an algorithm called DerUCP, which can be regarded as a general model for plan adaptation using Derivational Analogy. Using DerUCP, we show that previous results on the complexity of plan adaptation do not apply to Derivational Analogy. We also show that Derivational Analogy can potentially produce exponential reductions in the size of the search space generated by a pla...

There is a long-standing debate about the principles and mechanisms that constrain the combinatorial properties of affixes, in particular of English suffixes. One group of scholars argues for the existence of lexical strata with strong restrictions holding between the different strata. This view is disputed by scholars who claim that it is selectional restrictions of individual suffixes that ar...