On the Typology of Inflection Class Systems

Inflectional classes are a property of the ideal inflecting-fusional language type. Thus strongly inflecting languages have the most complex vertical and horizontal stratification of hierarchical tree structures. Weakly inflecting languages which also approach the ideal isolating type or languages which also approach the agglutinating type have much shallower structures. Such properties follow from principles of Natural Morphology and from the distinction of the descendent hierarchy of macroclasses, classes, subclasses, subsubclasses etc. and homogeneous microclasses. The main languages of illustration are Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkis

On the Typology of Inflection Class Systems

Inflectional classes are a property of the ideal inflecting-fusional language type. Thus strongly inflecting languages have the most complex vertical and horizontal stratification of hierarchical tree structures. Weakly inflecting languages which also approach the ideal isolating type or languages which also approach the agglutinating type have much shallower structures. Such properties follow from principles of Natural Morphology and from the distinction of the descendent hierarchy of macroclasses, classes, subclasses, subsubclasses etc. and homogeneous microclasses. The main languages of illustration are Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish

Sodininko Pranciškaus Skorinos vardas Austrijos valstybės archyve

Šioje publikacijoje supažindinama su rankraštiniu šaltiniu, kuriame Pranciškus Skorina minimas kitu, iki šiol nežinotu vardu. Austrijos valstybės archyve saugoma Bohemijos atminimo knyga, kurioje išlikę du įrašai apie Skoriną iš to laikmečio, kai jis dirbo Prahos karališkojo sodo sodininku. 1538 metų Vienos ir Prahos kanceliarijų susirašinėjimo įrašai apie sodininką Pranciškų pagrįstai interpretuojami kaip įrašai apie Pranciškų Skoriną

Change and Variation w Morphonotactics

In this contribution we discuss diachronic and variationist aspects of morphonotactics, a new research field that we have tried to establish over the last years (cf. Dressler & Dziubalska-Kołaczyk 2006). Morphonotactics is the area of interaction between morphotactics and phonotactics and represents a subfield of morphonology, which in turn is the area of interaction between morphology and phonology (cf. Dressler 1985, 1996). We claim that in this interaction morphotactics typically creates phonotactically marked structures which occur never or only exceptionally in monomorphemic words. In our contribution we deal with typical diachronic changes. Our claim about the markedness of morphonotactic sequences is tested mainly against data from Polish, Lithuanian and other Balto-Slavic languages. Our theoretical basis draws on models of Natural Phonology (cf. Hurch & Rhodes 1996, Dziubalska- Kołaczyk & Weckwerth 2002) and Natural Morphology (cf. Dressler et al. 1987, Kilani-Schoch & Dressler 2005), and especially on the subtheories of universal markedness (or universal preferences) and of typological adequacy