Naslov
Database of Croatian Morphological Doublets

Autori
Bošnjak Botica, Tomislava ; Hržica, Gordana ; Lečić, Dario ; Budja, Jurica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
CLARC 2018 Perspectives on linguistic diversity / - Rijeka : Centar za jezična istraživanja, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci, Sveučilište u Rijeci, 2018, 210-210

Skup
PERSPECTIVES ON LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY. International Linguistics Conference (CLARC 2018)

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 08.06.2018. - 10.06.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
morphological doublets, database, diachrony, synchrony, Croatian

Sažetak
A canonical morphological system, as per Corbett (2009) is one in which there is “a unique mapping from form to function and from function to form.” In a canonical inflectional paradigm, then, each cell would be realised by a different form and parallel forms would be impossible because the existence of one form prevents the co-existence of a form with the same grammatical function, as expressed by the Principle of Contrast (Clark 1987). However, it is in Slavonic languages, and Croatian more specifically, that such parallel forms abound. We call this phenomenon morphological doubletism (also called morphological synonymy or overabundance by other authors) and define it as a situation in language when there are two (or more) grammatical morphemes with the same function within an inflectional paradigm, which are not in complementary distribution. Some examples of Croatian doublets are: car‑om/car-em as the instrumental singular of a-declension, bitkā/bitkī /bitākā ‘battle’ as the genitive plural of e-declension, čist-iji/ čišć-i as two comparative forms etc. In this talk we will be presenting the progress made so far with creating a database of Croatian morphological doublets – DvojBa. Each lexical entry in the database will contain information on the morphological categories where doublets appear, the year and area of origin of each parallel form, examples of use etc. It will be morphologically tagged by using international tagging standards. The users will be able to use the database either by browsing through the lists of individual categories, lexemes or forms or by searching for the category, lexeme or form they are interested in. The diachronic aspect of the database is highly important because it enables us to follow the path of development of each form (from its entry into the language to the modern days). Only by collecting data from a large number of sources (historical dictionaries and classic authors as well as modern corpora and sources) will we be able to answer the question whether doubletism is a temporary or a permanent language feature.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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