
Doctorant
Status : PhD Student
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LLF, CNRS – UMR 7110
Université Paris Cité
Case 7031 – 5, rue Thomas Mann,
75205 Paris cedex 13
E-mail : whyrf.obhgba@h-cnevf.se
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Title : Predictability in the nominal paradigms of the Finnic languages
Inscription : 2023 à University Paris Cité
Abstract :
This project aims to propose a comparative analysis of the paradigm structures of a sample of Fennic languages (Estonian, Finnish, Olonetse Karelian, Livonian). This analysis should focus on two main issues : the predictability of a form, given the knowledge of another wordform (Paradigm Cell Filling Problem - PCFP), and the predictability of the meaning of a form (Paradigm Cell Recognition Problem - PCRP), given the knowledge of its phonological shape. It will require to design standardized methods that allow a quantitative evaluation of the main properties of an implicational structure, in order to draw some areal conclusions. As far as possible, these remarks will be linked to the current knowledge of the history of these languages. Finally, this comparative study will allow for a typology of the distribution of the morphological information within inflected words. Such a typology should be based on an abstractive approach (Blevins 2016), i.e. without any prejudiced segmentation of inflected words.