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Beyond the Lemma: Inflection-Specific Constructions in English Sally Rice and John Newman University of Alberta AACL 2008 BYU 14 March 2008 Bertrand Russell’s Emotive Conjugations I’m tenacious you’re stubborn he’s pigheaded inflection-specific meaning and behavior Form Idiosyncracies in a TypicalAthapaskan Verb Paradigm Form Idiosyncracies in a TypicalAthapaskan Verb Paradigm Form Idiosyncracies in another TypicalAthapaskan Verb Paradigm inflection-specific meaning and behavior (idiosyncracies of meaning, form, collocation, genre, and distribution) Inflectional Islands English Pronominal Inflection English Pronominal Inflection English Pronominal Inflection English Pronominal Inflection English Pronominal Inflection English Pronominal Inflection THE VERBISLAND HYPOTHESISTomasello 1992, 2004 children tend to use uninflected verb roots before inflected forms verb inflections are mastered on a verb-by-verb basis generalization is gradual initially, particular verbs “strand” inflections adults use particular inflected forms of individual verbs on a register-specific basis verb inflections adhere to verbs on a verb-by-verb basis particularization is gradual eventually, inflections “strand” particular verbs Corpus-based constructionists approaches allow us to leave the paradigm behind. Paradigms (lemmas) have value for some purposes, but they often end up straight-jacketing an analysis. The conceit of the paradigm tends to distract linguists from looking at the lexical semantics of inflected forms in their own right. Some items do escape the shackles of the paradigm and actually become lexical items in their own right (as in Russellian conjugations). So, if we dig a little deeper and go beyond raw frequencies, and compute attraction scores with 3SG and CAN, we see that the animates really dominate over the neuter “it” with forms of CAN, COULD, CAN’T, and COULDN’T Going even further and doing a collostructional analysis on the same set of data for just the