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DTSTART:20370308T030000 RDATE:20371101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d996c58d33d18bb057dc23033387f1b3 CATEGORIES:RuCCS Colloquia:Fall 2017 CREATED:20170830T153031 SUMMARY:The Texture of the Lexicon: Relational Morphology in the Parallel Architecture (Video Recording of the Interview Now Available) LOCATION:Tufts University\, Center for Cognitive Studies DESCRIPTION:Click here to view the video recording of Dr. Jackendoff's interview with D r. Musolino (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9U5zee32jg)\n \nAbs tract\nThe traditional emphasis of linguistic theory on Humboldt’s “infinit e use of finite means” has to be based on a characterization of the “finite means,” i.e. the lexicon. What does a language user store in the lexicon, and in what form?\nWe explore this question in the context of the Parallel Architecture (Jackendoff 2002), which strictly separates phonological, synt actic, and semantic/conceptual structures, and links them by means of inter face links. A word consists of a piece of each of these structures, plus in terface links between them. In these terms, rules of grammar can be stated as declarative templates or schemas – piece of linguistic structure contain ing variables. Hence the “rules of grammar” are contained in the lexicon, a nd “knowledge of language” is represented in a uniform format. As in other constraint-based frameworks, novel utterances are built by instantiating th e variables of schemas by the operation of Unification.\nWithin this outloo k, morphology emerges as the grammar of word-sized pieces of structure and their constituents, comprising morphosyntax and its interfaces to word phon ology, lexical semantics, and phrasal syntax. Canonical morphology features a straightforward mapping among these components; irregular morphology is predominantly a matter of noncanonical mapping between constituents of morp hosyntax and phonology.\nAn important aspect of morphology is that many, pe rhaps most of its patterns are not productive. In Relational Morphology, no nproductive patterns can be described in terms of schemas that are formally parallel to those for productive patterns. However, they do not encode aff ordances for building new structures online; rather, they motivate relation s among items stored in the lexicon, which can be formalized as relational links.\nCrucially, this relational function is not confined to nonproductiv e patterns. Productive schemas too can functional relationally within the l exicon; they can be thought of as schemas that have “gone viral.” In other words, the principles used to build novel structures online are simply a su bset of the schemas in the lexicon. We conclude that the focus in linguisti c theory on the “infinite use of finite means” has deflected attention from a more basic issue: the form of the lexicon and the relationships within i t.\nThis raises the question of how lexical relations are to be expressed. We show that the well-known mechanism of inheritance should be explicated, not in terms of minimizing the number of symbols in the lexicon, but in ter ms of increased redundancy. We propose a generalization of inheritance to i nclude lexical relations that are nondirectional and symmetrical, and we de velop a notation for relational links that pinpoints the regions of commona lity between pairs of words, between words and schemas, and between pairs o f schemas.\nWe conclude that linguistic theory should be concerned with rel ations among lexical items, from productive to marginal, at least as much a s with the online construction of novel forms. We further conclude that the lexicon is richly textured, in a fashion that invites comparison with othe r domains of human knowledge.\nhttps://ase.tufts .edu/cogstud/jackendoff/papers/Jackendoff&Audring_forthcoming_OHMT.pdf< /a> (Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring)\n The RuCCS Colloquia Series is organized by Dr. Julien Musolino and Dr. Sara Pixley. The talks are held o n Tuesdays in the Psychology Building (http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.asp x?256), Room 101 on the Busch Campus from 1:00-2:30pm.\nNote: If you would like to receive email announcements a bout the colloquium series, please contact the Business Office to have your name added to our announce lists at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Click here to view the video recording of Dr. Jacke ndoff's interview with Dr. Musolino (YouTube)
Abstra ct
The traditional emphasis of linguistic theory on Humboldt’s “infin ite use of finite means” has to be based on a characterization of the “fini te means,” i.e. the lexicon. What does a language user store in the lexicon , and in what form?
We explore this question in the context of the Pa rallel Architecture (Jackendoff 2002), which strictly separates phonologica l, syntactic, and semantic/conceptual structures, and links them by means o f interface links. A word consists of a piece of each of these structures, plus interface links between them. In these terms, rules of grammar can be stated as declarative templates or schemas – piece of linguistic structure containing variables. Hence the “rules of grammar” are contained in the lex icon, and “knowledge of language” is represented in a uniform format. As in other constraint-based frameworks, novel utterances are built by instantia ting the variables of schemas by the operation of Unification.
Within this outlook, morphology emerges as the grammar of word-sized pieces of st ructure and their constituents, comprising morphosyntax and its interfaces to word phonology, lexical semantics, and phrasal syntax. Canonical morphol ogy features a straightforward mapping among these components; irregular mo rphology is predominantly a matter of noncanonical mapping between constitu ents of morphosyntax and phonology.
An important aspect of morphology is that many, perhaps most of its patterns are not productive. In Relation al Morphology, nonproductive patterns can be described in terms of schemas that are formally parallel to those for productive patterns. However, they do not encode affordances for building new structures online; rather, they motivate relations among items stored in the lexicon, which can be formaliz ed as relational links.
Crucially, this relational function is not co nfined to nonproductive patterns. Productive schemas too can functional rel ationally within the lexicon; they can be thought of as schemas that have “ gone viral.” In other words, the principles used to build novel structures online are simply a subset of the schemas in the lexicon. We conclude that the focus in linguistic theory on the “infinite use of finite means” has de flected attention from a more basic issue: the form of the lexicon and the relationships within it.
This raises the question of how lexical rela tions are to be expressed. We show that the well-known mechanism of inherit ance should be explicated, not in terms of minimizing the number of symbols in the lexicon, but in terms of increased redundancy. We propose a general ization of inheritance to include lexical relations that are nondirectional and symmetrical, and we develop a notation for relational links that pinpo ints the regions of commonality between pairs of words, between words and s chemas, and between pairs of schemas.
We conclude that linguistic the ory should be concerned with relations among lexical items, from productive to marginal, at least as much as with the online construction of novel for ms. We further conclude that the lexicon is richly textured, in a fashion t hat invites comparison with other domains of human knowledge.
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/jackendoff/papers/Jackend off&Audring_forthcoming_OHMT.pdf (Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Aud ring)
The RuCCS Colloquia Series is o rganized by Dr. Julien Musolino and Dr. Sara Pixley. The talks are held on Tuesdays in the Psychology Building, Room 101 on the Busch Campus&nbs p;from 1:00-2:30pm.
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