Non-concatenative morphology as epiphenomenon1

Svenonius, Peter; Bye, Patrik

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“…In this they resemble head movement under most analyses in the government and binding framework and minimalism; head movement, too, is pure word order movement lacking interpretive effects (see Hall 2015: chapter 3 for recent discussion). The lack of interpretive effects of head movement has led to a number of theories that place head movement in the phonology (Boeckx and Stjepanović 2001) or construe it not as an effect of structural change but directly of linearization (extending ideas in Brody 1997, this line is taken in Abels 2000Abels , 2003Bye and Svenonius 2012;Adger 2013;Hall 2015). Those systems, however, are too weak to generate the full set of orders required under Cinque's and Abels and Neeleman's theories.…”

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The fundamental left–right asymmetry in the Germanic verb cluster

Abels

2016

J Comp German Linguistics

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Cinque (Linguist Inq 36(3): [315][316][317][318][319][320][321][322][323][324][325][326][327][328][329][330][331][332] 2005; Universals of language today. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 165-184, 2009; Functional structure from top to toe. Vol. 9 of The cartography of syntactic structures. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 232-265, 2014a) observes that there is an asymmetry in the possible ordering of dependents of a lexical head before versus after the head. A reflection on some of the concepts needed to develop Cinque's ideas into a theory of neutral word order reveals that dependents need to be treated separately by class. The resulting system is applied to the problem of word order in the Germanic verb cluster. It is shown that there is an extremely close match between theoretically derived expectations for clusters made up of auxiliaries, modals, causative 'let', a main verb, and verbal particles. The facts point to the action of Cinque's fundamental left-right asymmetry in language in the realm of the verb cluster. At the same time, not all verb clusters fall under Cinque's generalization, which, therefore, argues against treating all cases of restructuring uniformly.

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The fundamental left–right asymmetry in the Germanic verb cluster

Abels

2016

J Comp German Linguistics

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“…The difference between the two stems amounts to lengthening or shortening of the stem-final consonant, thus it need not be analyzed as allomorphy for little n. Indeed, Prince (1980) andCaha (2009) propose accounts in terms of a phonological shortening rule, a trigger for which is contained in the suffixes in the accusative and genitive, but crucially not in the suffix for the partitive. In the system of Bye & Svenonius (2012), this could be implemented by saying that the particular exponent we see here for the accusative, for example, contains a segmental /u/, plus a floating autosegmental feature that is prespecified to be associated with the stem-final consonant (cluster).…”

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“…This can derive the appearance that a process is being triggered by a morphosyntactic category or environment. See Bye & Svenonius (2012) for a lengthy treatment of this approach for dealing with apparent morphological processes.…”

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*ABA in stem-allomorphy and the emptiness of the nominative

McFadden

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this paper I examine patterns of irregular allomorphy in nominal stems sensitive to case in a number of nominative-accusative languages. I will argue that the data surveyed reveal a certain regularity in the distribution of irregularity across the cases in that they conform to what I call the Nominative Stem-Allomorphy Generalization. One irregular stem form is always found in the nominative (and in other cases that may be systematically syncretic with it), with all other cases sharing a single other stem form. I will show that this subsumes a clear instance of a *ABA pattern, and in fact is even more restrictive, as it also shows *ABC and (qualified) *AAB. I will situate these findings relative to recent work on *ABA patterns and on case-sensitive irregularity in noun and pronoun suppletion, and then will build on that prior work to propose an account for the generalization in terms of a structured representation of nouns and case categories interacting with locality conditions on allomorphy.

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“…The morphemes that make up a morphologically complex word do not come together by movement under one terminal at any point; they are simply placed next to each other at Phonetic Form by the mapping rule that translates syntactic hierarchy into linear order. DLTs come in two types: lexicalist (Brody 1997;2000a;b;Brody & Szabolcsi 2003) and non-lexicalist (Abels 2003;Bury 2003;Adger et al 2010;Bye & Svenonius 2012;Adger 2013;Ramchand 2014;Hall 2015). The two approaches lead to different syntactic representations when the selecting and the selected head do not form a morphological word.…”

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Approaches to head movement: A critical assessment

Dékány

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Heads can be spelled out higher than their merge-in position. The operation that the transformationalist generative literature uses to model this is called head movement. Government and Binding posited that the operation in question involves adjunction of a lower head to a higher head in narrow syntax. It has been noted early on, however, that this approach is highly problematic because head-adjunction violates several well-motivated constraints on syntactic structures.This overview article surveys the problems raised by the adjunction approach as well as the recent alternative analyses that were suggested in its stead in the Minimalist program. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the alternatives, discusses to what extent they are able to eliminate the problems raised by the adjunction analysis, and also points out the new problems that they give rise to.

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Non-concatenative morphology as epiphenomenon1

Cited by 117 publications

References 130 publications

The fundamental left–right asymmetry in the Germanic verb cluster

The fundamental left–right asymmetry in the Germanic verb cluster

*ABA in stem-allomorphy and the emptiness of the nominative

Approaches to head movement: A critical assessment

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