Limits on Allomorphy: A Case Study in Nominal Suppletion

The role of morphological markedness in inclusive/exclusive pronouns

“…In this section, I briefly recapitulate Bobaljik (2012) and Moskal (2013), in which it is argued that suppletion data can serve as a detector of morphological structure.…”

Pronoun copying in Dinka Bor and the Copy Theory of Movement

“…Let me first be explicit about the syntactic structure I assume for pronouns. In recent work on case and number suppletion, Moskal (2015) and Smith et al (2016) propose that pronouns contain a functional head encoding person, at their core (PersP here), 23 below projections encoding number and case (50). 24 (50)…”

“…Suppletion patterns might provide one such diagnostic. Moskal (2015) shows that pronouns and nouns differ crosslinguistically in the suppletion patterns they allow. Pronouns commonly supplete both for plural and case.…”

“…I suggest that the generalization in (64) should derive from the way in which person and number information is organized inside a DP, and specifically from the idea that number is introduced above person (Moskal 2015;Smith et al 2016;Harbour 2016). A way of doing this is to propose that number and person information may escape deletion through head movement of Num or n up to K. In this view, Num in Dinka would move up to K, so that a copied pronoun always realizes the complex head Num+K.…”

“…Dinka nouns may supplete for number: Moskal (2015) presents an account of this difference between pronouns and lexical DPs that makes crucial use of the idea that the nP phase is missing in pronouns.…”