Proměny morfémů v čase a prostoru
| Thesis title in Czech: | Proměny morfémů v čase a prostoru |
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| Thesis title in English: | Morpheme-level language changes in time and space |
| Key words: | morfém|evoluce jazyka|morfologie |
| English key words: | morpheme|language evolution|morphology |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2023/2024 |
| Thesis type: | dissertation |
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| Department: | Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL) |
| Supervisor: | doc. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D. |
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| Even though both functional and semantic language changes have long been an active field of inquiry, due to the lack of machine tractable data much of previous work in the field was based on case studies ([1],[2]) and/or was strongly theoretically underlied ([1]). It makes the hypotheses related to both word-level and morpheme-level functional and semantic change hard to validate, especially regarding large generalization regarding, e.g., existence of language change universals, while the large-scale multilingual studies ([3], [4]) tend to be based on reference grammars rather than multi-lingual corpora. The goal of the thesis is to leverage the now-available multilingual morphological resources, vector space word representations and large diachronic corpora (if and when available) to explore the morpheme-level mechanisms of functional and semantic change in a data-driven way, focusing on both diachronic and synchronic aspects of morpheme flow as well as probing links between word-level and morpheme-level language change. This would probably require further harmonization of multi-lingual resources, the result of which can then be used for further research.
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| References |
| [1] Diertani, Chaya Eliana Ariel. Morpheme boundaries and structural change: Affixes running amok. Diss. University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
[2] Hamans, Camiel. Language change and morphological processes. Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting. Vol. 3. No. 1. 2017. [3] Bybee, Joan L., Revere Dale Perkins, and William Pagliuca. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Vol. 196. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. [4] Bybee, J. Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985 |