The typology of morphological ergativity in Neo-Aramaic

Doron, Edit; Khan, Geoffrey

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2011.11.008

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“…In addition, the perfective verb base can only host one agreement morpheme, while the imperfective verb base can host two. 4 The second type of split, found in Christian Barwar, Christian Qaraqosh, Telkepe, and several other languages, involves complete agreement reversal (Khan 2002(Khan , 2008Coghill 2003;Doron and Khan 2012). We exemplify this pattern with data from Christian Barwar (Khan 2008:167, 282):…”

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confidence: 59%

“…In this section we introduce some of the properties that will be constant across these languages and the terminology that we will use to describe them. Much of this description is adapted from earlier theoretical work on Neo-Aramaic, in particular that of Doron and Khan (2012).…”

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“…The term S-suffix stands for simple/subject-suffix, as it was historically subject agreement and is still most frequently used in this function. 5 The term L-suffix derives from the fact that all these markers start with an l-, historically a dative/accusative preposition, reflecting the origin of these morphemes as oblique pronominal suffixes (Doron and Khan 2012). The term L-suffix, however, is somewhat of a misnomer, as L-suffixes are more properly characterized as clitics (Doron and Khan 2012).…”

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“…2 We are focusing here on the complete agreement reversal languages that exhibit an asymmetry between the perfective and the imperfective, in the form of a Person Case Constraint (PCC) effect. There are, however, a number of other types of systems that we will not discuss (see Doron and Khan 2012). Most notably, there are varieties with complete agreement reversal that do not exhibit a PCC effect in the perfective.…”

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“…As we will show in this paper, however, there are indeed languages that display aspect splits of this kind. 1 The languages we will discuss belong to a group of northeastern Neo-Aramaic languages which appear to have developed aspect-based agreement splits through contact with split-ergative Kurdish languages (Doron and Khan 2012). The way in which aspect affects agreement in these languages varies significantly.…”

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This paper looks at two different aspect splits in Neo-Aramaic languages that are unusual in that they do not involve any ergativity. Instead, these splits are characterized by agreement reversal, a pattern in which the function of agreement markers switches between aspects, though the alignment of agreement remains consistently nominative-accusative. Some Neo-Aramaic languages have complete agreement reversal, affecting both subject and object agreement (Khan 2002(Khan , 2008Coghill 2003). In addition to this, we describe a different system, found in Senaya, which we call partial agreement reversal. In Senaya, the reversal only affects the marker of the perfective subject, which marks objects in the imperfective. We show that a unifying property of the systems that we discuss is that there is additional agreement potential in the imperfective. We develop an account in which these splits arise because of an aspectual predicate in the imperfective that introduces an additional ϕ-probe. This proposal provides support for the view that aspect splits are the result of an additional predicate in nonperfective aspects (Laka 2006;Coon 2010;Coon and Preminger 2012), because it allows for the apparently disparate phenomena of split ergativity and agreement reversal to be given a unified treatment.

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2020

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The typology of morphological ergativity in Neo-Aramaic

Cited by 35 publications

References 22 publications

Aspect splits without ergativity

Aspect splits without ergativity

The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton

Chapter 9. The perfect in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

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