LIN516 Lab#1 Reading #55-77
LIN516 Lab#1 Reading #44-54
LIN516 Lab#1 Reading #22-40
LIN516 Lab #1 #1-10
Race, Class, and Drag: Rusty Barrett
Rusty Barrett is an assistant professor in the Linguistics program. On February 16th, 2012, Barrett will present a lecture, “Sickening Queens: Ethnic and Class Difference in Drag.” The lecture is at 4pm in the President’s Room at the Singletary Center for the Arts, and will address ways in which drag performances reflect social and cultural differences related to class and ethnicity.
What are principal parts, and what can they tell us about an inflectional system's morphological complexity?
Speaker: Raphael Finkel
Authors: Raphael Finkel and Gregory Stump
Abstract: In natural-language pedagogy, principal parts are used as a concise way of summarizing a lexeme's full paradigm of inflected forms. In the context of morphological typology, principal parts may be used as a means of gauging both the nature and the degree of the complexity exhibited by a language's inflectional paradigms. We show that principal parts afford several different ways of measuring morphological complexity. We define principal parts, propose desired characteristics (uniqueness, uniformity, optimality), then present seven derived measures of complexity. We illustrate these measures by referring to Pāli, a middle Indic language.