Typology.Morphology #
@cite{bickel-nichols-2013a} @cite{bickel-nichols-2013b} @cite{bickel-nichols-2013c} @cite{nichols-bickel-2013} @cite{nichols-bickel-2013a} @cite{nichols-bickel-2013b} @cite{nichols-bickel-2013c} @cite{nichols-bickel-2013d} @cite{baerman-brown-2013} @cite{baerman-brown-2013a} @cite{dryer-2013-wals} @cite{rubino-2013}
Per-language typological substrate for morphological mechanisms, covering WALS chapters 20--29 (fusion, exponence, synthesis, locus of marking, prefixing/suffixing, reduplication, syncretism) plus thematically-related Ch 21B, 62, 79A, 79B, 80A.
Mirrors the Linglib/Typology/{Possession,Negation,Comparison,Coordination, Modality,Gender,Alignment,ArgumentStructure,Copulas} substrate-extension
pattern. Fragment-importable.
What lives here #
The morphological types themselves -- Fusion, Flexivity, Exponence,
ExponenceScope, VerbSynthesis, LocusOfMarking, PrefixSuffix,
Reduplication, LocusClause, LocusPossessive, WholeLanguageMarking,
ZeroMarkingAP, CaseSyncretism, VerbalSyncretism, TAMExponence,
ActionNominal, SuppletionTA, SuppletionImperative, VerbalNumber --
plus the MorphProfile struct and the fromWALS{20A..80A} converters --
already live in Core/Morphology/MorphProfile.lean (Fragments depend on
them directly).
This file adds the WALS-aggregate layer:
WALSCountrow struct +WALSCount.totalOfsummer.- Per-chapter WALS distribution lists (
ch20Distribution...ch80Distribution). - WALS aggregate sample-size theorems (
ch20_total...ch80_total). - Corpus-only generalisations: Greenberg's Universal 27 (suffixing dominates), concatenative dominance (Ch 20), reduplication majority (Ch 27), Ch 22 moderate-synthesis dominance.
Out of scope #
The 18-language MorphProfile sample and the cross-chapter theorems built
on it -- B&N orthogonality (concatenative × flexivity), agglutinating-vs-
fusional partition, head-marking-implies-high-synthesis -- live in
Phenomena/Morphology/Studies/BickelNichols2013.lean.
@cite{ackerman-malouf-2013}'s LanguageData (10-language E/I-complexity
sample) and the LCEC apparatus live in
Phenomena/Morphology/Studies/AckermanMalouf2013.lean.
WALSCount + WALSCount.totalOf are imported from
Linglib/Data/WALS/Aggregation.lean (shared with the other
Typology files that consume WALS distributions).
WALS Ch 20: exclusively concatenative is the most common single fusion type, exceeding both isolating and tonal.
WALS Ch 27: productive reduplication (full or full+partial) is present in the majority of WALS-sampled languages.
WALS Ch 22: most languages have 2--7 categories per verb word; the extremes (0--1 and 12--13) are rare.