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Paradigm Structure and Predictability in Latin Inflection: An Entropy-Based Approach

by Matteo Pellegrini
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783031248467
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 183
  • Original Price: EUR 109.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2023
  • Item Weight: 292 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Morphology and Speech & Audio Processing

Latin paradigms are almost proverbially known, and they have often been used as a test case for different theoretical approaches to morphological complexity. This book analyses them in a completely word-based perspective, using a recently developed information-theoretic methodology, making entropy-based techniques of analysis available to a wider readership. By doing so, it shows the relevance of traditional notions like principal parts, giving them a more principled, data-driven formulation. Furthermore, it suggests enhancements to the standard information-theoretic methodology, allowing to account for the role of external factors - like gender and derivational information - in improving predictability between inflected word forms. This book is useful to morphologists, that will see ideas and techniques taken from the current debate on morphological theory tested on complex phenomena of a language as renowned as Latin. It is also helpful for scholars working in both Latin and Romancelinguistics: the former will find a freely available lexical resource and a novel description of Latin paradigms, that can be exploited by the latter to draw a comparison with recent analyses of the inflectional morphology of several Romance languages.

Matteo Pellegrini is postdoctoral researcher at the CIRCSE Research Centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He has completed a joint PhD program at the Universities of Bergamo and Pavia. His master thesis has been awarded a mention among the best dissertations of the University of Torino for the academic year 2014/15. He is especially interested in theoretical morphology, that he has investigated extensively for Latin and Italian.

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