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Linglib.Typology.Morphology

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:

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.