2015
DOI: 10.1017/s0022226715000134
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Negation through reduplication and tone: implications for the Lexical Functional Grammar/Paradigm Function Morphology interface

Abstract: Morphological marking of negation through verbal reduplication and tone is a typologically rare phenomenon attested in Eleme (Niger-Congo; Nigeria). Using Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) and Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM) to model first-hand data, I argue that reduplication is not a direct exponent of negation in Eleme, but an asemantic morphomic process, indirectly associated with the presence of a negative polarity feature in LFG's m(orphological)-structure. While negative verb forms of this kind are ty… Show more

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