Generalised mora affixation and quantity-manipulating morphology

Trommer, Jochen; Zimmermann, Eva

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“…This allows for a one-to-many relationship between the elements of the two representations and, as a consequence, for operations such as coalescence (multiple input element -single output element), fission (single input element -multiple output elements), insertion (no input element -one output element) and, crucially, deletion (one input element -no output element). Even though Correspondence rapidly became the standard approach to faithfulness, Containment has been recently revived in the guise of Turbidity Theory and Coloured Containment (van Oostendorp 2007;Trommer 2011;Trommer & Zimmermann 2014).…”

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Empty morphemes in Dutch dialect atlases: Reducing morphosyntactic variation by refining emptiness typology

Cavirani

Oostendorp

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In the literature on Dutch morphosyntactic microvariation, it is sometimes assumed that a subpart of Dutch dialects lack certain morphemes, because they have no direct phonetic exponent. More careful analyses, however, suggest that these dialects display so-called zero morphemes, whose presence is argued for either on paradigmatic or phonological ground. In this contribution, we present some examples of such morphemes in the verbal inflection and adjectival concord systems, and develop an analysis that, by exploiting the formal mechanism relating underlying and surface phonological representations provided by Turbidity Theory, allows for the formalization of various degrees of emptiness: morphosyntactic, phonological and phonetic. This, in turn, allows for the shifting of the burden of (some instances of) microvariation from morphosyntax to PF.

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Section: Turbidity Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Empty morphemes in Dutch dialect atlases: Reducing morphosyntactic variation by refining emptiness typology

Cavirani

Oostendorp

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…From a broader perspective, our analysis shows that allowing for a more detailed theory of representations makes it possible to account for patterns that at first sight might look like they require referring to cophonologies (or other word-or paradigm-based models of morphology). In that sense, our approach to non-concatenative exponence is in line with principles of autosegmental metrical phonology and Generalized Non-Linear Affixation (Bermúdez-Otero 2012, Trommer & Zimmermann 2014).…”

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“…Our analysis contributes to several ongoing debates in the literature. First of all, our approach to nonconcatenative exponence is in line with principles of Generalized Non-Linear Affixation, as defined in, e.g., Bermúdez-Otero (2012) or Trommer & Zimmermann (2014). We argue that our morpheme-based approach to the alternations is more restrictive than an earlier account by Bennett & Henderson (2013;henceforth B&H), who divide relevant items into several nominal cophonologies.…”

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Restricting the Power of Cophonologies: A Representational Solution to Stem Allomorphy in Uspanteko

Köhnlein

Zhu

2019

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In Uspanteko, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala, certain possessive prefixes lead to variation in stress and pitch accent and can sometimes trigger vowel length alternations or consonant deletion in roots. We argue that this complex pattern of stem allomorphy can be successfully analyzed within a morpheme-based model of morphology given two assumptions: i. underlying representations can contain metrical templates (e.g. Saba Kirchner 2013, Iosad 2016, Köhnlein 2016, 2019 for recent proposals); ii. pitch-accent contrasts in Uspanteko are a surface exponent of a difference between trochaic (falling tone) and iambic feet (level tone), as proposed in Köhnlein (2019). We claim that our analysis is more restrictive than an earlier account by Bennett & Henderson (2013; henceforth B&H), who divide relevant items into several nominal cophonologies. In analyzing non-concatenative exponence as an epiphenomenon of metrical affixation, our approach is in line with principles of Generalized Non-Linear Affixation (e.g. Bermúdez-Otero 2012, Trommer & Zimmermann 2014).

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“…A constraint ranked between them forces morphological exponence to have a phonological interpretation; deletion is that exponence. The relational approach contrasts with Trommer and Zimmermann (2014), who invoke mora affixation in their analysis of Alabama subtractive morphology, where they argue that when the affixed moras have defective prosodic structure, subtractive processes are one of the possible outcomes.…”

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Morphology in the Muskogean languages

Fitzgerald

2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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The indigenous languages of the Americas exemplify a number of uncommon typological patterns, especially in their morphology. Here, that rich morphology is illustrated via the Muskogean languages of the southeastern United States. Muskogean languages are agglutinative, but even more interesting and uncommon patterns emerge in an analysis of their morphology. These include subtractive morphology, suppletion, infixation, ablaut, and the use of suprasegmentals. These morphological patterns present considerable complexity. Inflected verbs in narratives and conversation often reflect more than one of the morphological processes. This morphological complexity also demonstrates characteristics of being nonlinear, of being prosodic yet not aligning with neat prosodic boundaries, of not having direct correspondence between grammatical categories and surface segments or suprasegmentals, or having more than one of those characteristics. Six of the seven Muskogean languages are still currently spoken by fluent first language speakers, and many of the tribal nations who represent these languages are involved in ongoing documentation and revitalization efforts, often in partnership with linguists. Thus, despite their highly endangered status, excellent existing documentation and new questions in research create an opportunity to collect even more intricate inflected forms that will enrich models of morphology and morphological theory while having broader impacts, like supporting tribal language revitalization. | INTRODUCTIONThe languages native to the Americas are noteworthy for their morphology, especially the Muskogean languages, leading to significant developments in linguistic theory. Tribes originally located in the southeastern United States spoke Muskogean languages, with some tribes forced westward due toThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (Martin, 2011a: 423-435). Muskogean verbs exhibit morphology that covers most of the range of word-building processes, including prefixing, suffixing, infixing, circumfixing, ablaut/internal changes, use of suprasegmentals, suppletion, truncation, all covered here, as well as reduplication, noun incorporation, polysynthesis, and more.Extensive and rich documentation for these languages provides significant resources for both academic research and language revitalization. Martin (2004) and Sturtevant (2005) provide excellent historical overviews of research on Muskogean languages. 4 Of particular importance are early scholars and missionaries like Albert Gaschet, John Swanton, and Cyrus Byington, all of whom made valuable contributions. The Muskogean family was a focus of one of the many bibliographies of Native American languages compiled by the Bureau of American Ethnology's James Constantine Pilling (Pilling 1889). Notably, the late Mary Haas spent a significant portion of her early career in linguistics fo...

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Generalised mora affixation and quantity-manipulating morphology

Cited by 35 publications

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Empty morphemes in Dutch dialect atlases: Reducing morphosyntactic variation by refining emptiness typology

Empty morphemes in Dutch dialect atlases: Reducing morphosyntactic variation by refining emptiness typology

Restricting the Power of Cophonologies: A Representational Solution to Stem Allomorphy in Uspanteko

Morphology in the Muskogean languages

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