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dc.contributor.authorLohndal, Terje
dc.contributor.authorPutnam, Michael T.
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-23T11:53:22Z
dc.date.available2021-11-23T11:53:22Z
dc.date.issued2021-11-10
dc.description.abstractThe notion of complexity is evasive and often left to intuition, yet it is often invoked when studying heritage language grammars. In this article, we propose a first pass at decomposing the notion of complexity into smaller components in a formal grammatical model. In particular, we argue that a distributed model of the lexicon (i.e., one that assumes that principles that generate both words and phrases are one and the same) allows us to identify three components: syntactic features, the hierarchical organization of features, and the mapping between syntactic features and their exponents. Based on grammatical gender in different language pairs, in particular the heritage language American Norwegian (AmNo), we illustrate how this distributed model can account for developments in heritage language grammars whereby the grammatical gender system is considered to have become less complex. More generally, the article demonstrates that a distributed architecture is better suited empirically and theoretically as a heuristic to understand complexity effects in heritage grammars and beyond.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLohndal T, Putnam MT. The Tale of Two Lexicons: Decomposing Complexity across a Distributed Lexicon. Heritage Language Journal. 2021;18:1-29en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1953807
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15507076-12340010
dc.identifier.issn1550-7076
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23135
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.relation.journalHeritage Language Journal
dc.relation.projectIDSenter for grunnforskning: CAS 2019/20 MultiGenderen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000en_US
dc.titleThe Tale of Two Lexicons: Decomposing Complexity across a Distributed Lexiconen_US
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dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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