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Sepp vs Paradigms

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We present data from a Middle Bavarian language in order to ar­gue against the notions lexeme and paradigm. We argue that there is no level of abstraction at which lexemes have coherent properties, unless that level is the one of morphemes, i.e., of roots and affixes. Our argument is based on an examination of the “paradigm” of clitic de­terminers: /s/, /d/, /n/ and /da/. We show that each of them has its own phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic properties. While such data are well compatible with a morpheme-based theory (the finer properties are captured in terms of the properties of individual lexical items, the general properties in terms of natural classes), they illus­trate the arbitrariness and incoherence of the notions paradigm and lexeme.

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  • Affiliations: 1: UMR 7110 Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS and Université Paris 7 2; 2: Université Lille 3 and UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage

References

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    1992 “The Definite Determiner and the Inalienable Constructions in French and in English.”Linguistic Inquiry23: 595–652.
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    1998 Syntax des Bairischen: Studien zur Grammatik einer natürlichen Sprache. Linguistische Arbeiten. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
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References

  1. Bendjaballah, Sabrina
    2012 La grammaire des gabarits. Habilitation thesis, University of Paris 7.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Bendjaballah, Sabrina , and Martin Haiden
    2008 “A Typology of Emptiness in Templates.” In Sounds of Silence: Empty Elements in Syntax and Phonology, ed. by Jutta Hartmann , Vera Hegedus , and Henk C. van Riemsdijk , 21–57. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Brugger, Gerhard , and Martin Prinzhorn
    1996 “Some Properties of German Determiners.” Ms.
  4. Cardinaletti, Anna , and Michal Starke
    1999 “The Typology of Structural Deficiency. On the Three Grammatical Classes.” In Clitics in the Languages of Europe, ed. by Henk van Riemsdijk , 145–234. Berlin: de Gruyter.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew
    1998 “Paradigmatic Structure: Inflectional Paradigms and Morphological Classes.” In The Handbook of Morphology, ed. by Andrew Spencer , and Arnold M. Zwicky , 322–334. Oxford, England; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Dowty, David
    1991 “Thematic Proto-roles and Argument Selection.”Language67: 547–619. doi: 10.1353/lan.1991.0021
     https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1991.0021 [Google Scholar]
  7. Faust, Noam
    2013 “Decomposing the Feminine Suffixes of Modern Hebrew.”Morphology23: 409–440. doi: 10.1007/s11525‑013‑9230‑8
     https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9230-8 [Google Scholar]
  8. Kloeke, W.U.S. van Lessen
    1985 Enklitische Formen und Flexion im Bairischen und im Hochdeutschen, InGrammatik, Semantik, Textlinguistik, ed. by W. Kürschner and R. Vogt , 73–80. Tubingen: Niemeyer.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Lowenstamm, Jean
    2008 “On Little n, Root, and Types of Nouns.” In Sounds of Silence: Empty Elements in Syntax and Phonology, ed. by Jutta Hartmann , Vera Hegedus , and Henk C. van Riemsdijk , 105–143. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. 2011 “The Phonological Pattern of phi-features in the Perfective Paradigm of Moroccan Arabic.”Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics3: 140–201. doi: 10.1163/187666311X562495
     https://doi.org/10.1163/187666311X562495 [Google Scholar]
  11. 2012 “Feminine and Gender, or Why the Feminine Profile of French Nouns has Nothing to Do with Gender.” In Linguistic Inspirations. Edmund Gussmann in Memoriam, ed. by Eugenius Cyran , Henryk Kardela , and Bogdan Szymanek , 371–406. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski.
     [Google Scholar]
  12. . to appear. “Derivational Affixes as Roots, no Exponence (Phasal Spellout meets English Stress Shift).” In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax ed. by Artemis Alexiadou , Hagit Borer , and Florian Schäfer . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  13. Vergnaud, Jean-Roger , and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
    1992 “The Definite Determiner and the Inalienable Constructions in French and in English.”Linguistic Inquiry23: 595–652.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. Weiß, Helmut
    1998 Syntax des Bairischen: Studien zur Grammatik einer natürlichen Sprache. Linguistische Arbeiten. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
     [Google Scholar]

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