The Stress Pattern of English Verbs

1997

We are delighted to present the Proceedings of the 21st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. The publication of these proceedings continues our efforts to bring the research and ideas presented at our conference each year to a worldwide audience. Included in these volumes are 65 of the 90 papers selected for presentation at the November 1996 conference. We are grateful to all of the contributors who took the extra step of turning their conference presentations into written papers. There are many people who helped to make the 1996 conference, and these volumes, a success, and we would like to thank some of them here. We are very grateful to our reviewers, many of whom have supported the conference for many years. We would also like to thank the many students and faculty of the Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics who contributed their time to the conference. Finally, special gratitude is owed to Professors Cathy O'Connor and Marco Haverkort, faculty advisors to the conference. We are pleased to continue the tradition of Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, and hope you enjoy these volumes.

Word Structure, 2015

This reference work on English morphology can be qualified as the (for a long time needed) successor to Marchand's famous handbook The categories and types of present-day English word formation, of which the second and last edition was published in 1969 . The book to be reviewed here, however, has a larger scope, as it does not only deal with word formation but also with inflection. Hence, it is a comprehensive book on English morphology. The authors of this book are all senior researchers in the domain of English morphology, with an individual track record of important publications on English morphology. So it was a good idea of these authors to work together to produce an authoritative volume on English morphology. What are the main features of this book compared to Marchand's book? First of all, it incorporates the results of decades on research on English morphology since the 1960's. Second, it is based on huge corpora, of a size that was unthinkable in the time that Marchand wrote his book. The main corpus used are COCA (the Corpus of Contemporary American English), the British National corpus, CELEX, and the Google Book Corpus. In addition, various dictionaries and reverse dictionaries were used. Many examples of complex words are

Languages

A long-time generative tradition treats the functional domains of the verb and noun as a result of motion and affixing; however, assuming a close correspondence between the order in syntax and morphology, as in the Mirror Principle proposed by Baker seems to be too strong a hypothesis and empirically unsustainable. Distributed Morphology (DM) incorporates this idea by translating it into rules manipulating syntactic nodes. The morphological phenomena we will investigate essentially concerns the thematic vowel (TV) and its interaction with agreement morphology. A complex micro-variation emerges, which provides us with a test bench in order to account for the word-internal morphological organization. We question the idea that morphology is an auxiliary and expensive post-syntactic component, DM, that conveys information separated from its original locus as assumed by Embick and Noyer. On the contrary, we think that a more adequate account is reached assuming that the morphology is gov...

Verbs - Morphological, Syntactic, and Semantic Properties, 2022

Verbs have their morphology (i.e., their structure in terms of inflection and derivation), syntax (i.e., their arrangement or position in a phrase, clause, or sentence) and semantics (i.e., their meaning in phrase, clause, or sentence). We could see that a great number of learners tend to make mistakes in the use of verbs in a sentence. Some learners fail to know whether a verb is transitive or intransitive (or rather what comes after a verb). Others tend to ignore their meanings (or rather, they fail to know whether a verb denotes an action/process or denotes states). A few of them commit mistakes in terms of inflected forms. As a consequence, we can see that a great number of learners tend to have problems when it comes to speaking and writing English language. In this regard, we propose extensive reading to expand vocabulary and language exposure.

2018

مجلة کلية الآداب (الزقازيق), 2018

English Language and Linguistics, 2014

Ingo Plag The Oxford reference guide to English morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 704. ISBN 978-0-19-957926-6. Ingo Plag The Oxford reference guide to English morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 704. ISBN 978-0-19-957926-6. Reviewed by Pius ten Hacken, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck

This dissertation discusses competition in verbal affixation, specifically -en, -ate, -ify, -ize/ise, including conversion as in the interpretation of word-class change by zero affixation. The aim is to attest cases of competition in this area of English word-formation, as well as to gather as much additional information as possible on present competition in the selection of verbal affixes.

The present study employs a frequency-based corpus-driven approach to investigating the levelling and irregularization processes in ModE irregular verbs. It utilizes Mark Davies’ family of English corpora to examine the paradigms of seven irregular verbs in which the previously menitioned processes have resulted in introduction of double paradigms in standard and nonstandard English. The result of frequency-based analysis of the data extracted from the abovementioned corpora will be used to identify and interpret diachronic trends as well as synchronic regional variations with respect to levelling and irregularization processes. Additionally, based on the data analysis, the research questions regarding the prevalence, acceptability and regional Variation in context of levelling and irregularization will be answered.