This paper examines the possible relationship between proposed social determinants of morphological 'complexity' and how this contributes to linguistic diversity, specifically via the typological nature of the sign languages of deaf communities. We sketch how the notion of morphological complexity, as defined by Trudgill (2011), applies to sign languages. Using these criteria, sign languages ap...

This text is about the problem of typology, localization producing and dating medieval building ceramics (Flanged tiles) South-Western Crimea. The investigation products tile production centers in Crimea allowed to systematize a large complex archaeological sources. They came from various archeological sites that were located throughout region. Technological morphological typology arrange all t...

In this talk I am concerned with the following questions: 1. What is phonological typology? 2. How are phonological typology and phonetic typology the same/different? 3. How are phonological typology and general phonology the same/different? 4. How are phonological typology and general typology the same/different? Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson, Martinet, Greenberg and others, and...

Reduplication has played a central role in the development of phonological theories for 30years. The introduction of Classical Optimality Theory (OT) in the 1990s sparked intensive research into the typology and analysis of reduplicative patterns, as reduplication was a key testing area both for OT and for theories critical of OT. Now, after some 20years of research within the OT model, it is a...

Recent years have witnessed a renewal of interest in variable morph ordering, the situation where the position of a morph in the word is not constant. These situations present a challenge to extant inferential-realisational approaches to morphology (Stump, 2001), insofar as these adopt implicitly or explicitly an a-morphous approach to morphological composition (Anderson, 1992). In this paper w...

Universal Dependencies is an initiative to develop cross-linguistically consistent grammatical annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning and parsing research from a language typology perspective. It assumes a dependency-based approach to syntax and a lexicalist approach to morphology, which together entail that the funda...

Universal Dependencies is a recent initiative to develop crosslinguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. In this paper, I outline the motivation behind the initiative and explain how the basic design principles follow from these...

When we talk about phonological change, it is reasonably clear what we mean, but the scope of morphological change is less obvious, and depends heavily on the scope of what we take to be ‘morphology’. This is because characteristics and effects of the structure of words are somewhat more ‘metastasised’ in grammatical structure, interrelated with sound structure, syntax and meaning. For concrete...

This project investigates the problem of learning compound order, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Formal theories of linguistics have not addressed the question of why the constituents forming verbal compounds are ordered the way they are. Research in linguistic typology and language acquisition is critically examined, demonstrating the importance of the study of mental representation in...