The Linearization Of Affixes Microform Evidence From Nuu Chah Nulth British Columbia

Author : Rachel Wojdak
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780494105887
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Linearization of Affixes [microform]: Evidence from Nuu-chah-nulth (British Columbia) written by Rachel Wojdak and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation addresses the linearization of affixes, and argues for the particular model of the way in which syntax maps to phonology. According to the proposal, syntax is spelled-out to phonology in minimal cycles equivalent to a single application of syntactic Merge. I term this proposal the local spell-out hypothesis. The empirical grounds on which this hypothesis is assessed in Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), a Southern Wakashan language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. Nuu-chah-nulth has a class of morphologically bound predicates termed affixal predicates which participate in a linearization strategy of suffixation. I claim that affixes in Nuu-chah-nulth are linearized at spell-out with respect of 'hosts' as a consequence of the PF requirement that utterances be sequentially ordered. Spell-out induces in Nuu-chah-nulth a relationship which I label PF Incorporation. The affixal predicate 'incorporates' its host in order to achieve a pronounceable form, that of a linearized affix. An affixal predicate in Nuu-chah-nulth consistently suffixes to a host chosen from its derivational sister, its complement. This suffixation pattern is subject to a string adjacency effect: an affixal predicate incorporates only the leftmost element from its complement, which happens to be contiguous with the affixal predicate. I present the argument that the local spell-out hypothesis elegantly captures this dual sensitivity to derivational sisterhood and linear adjacency. Although the spell-out mechanism which induces linearization of affixes is non-syntactic, syntactic sisterhood conditions linearization opportunities at PF via the composition of local spell-out domains. This dissertation presents a variety of diagnostics for Nuu-chah-nulth clausal structure, with a particular focus on the argument structure of affixal predicates. Amongst affixal predicates which take nominal complements, predicates range from unaccusative to extended unaccusative, transitive to ditransitive. Unergatives, however, are systematically absent from the inventory of affixal predicates in Nuu-chah-nulth. Amongst affixal predicates which take verbal complements, both modal and main predicates are found. A consequence of the analysis is that syntax is 'phonologized' over the course of the derivation, in minimal stages induced by application of Merge. Linearization is thus established in increments. This analysis has implications for the grammatical locus of head movement operations: head movement is not strictly phonological.

Author : Rachel Wojdak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402065485
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Linearization of Affixes: Evidence from Nuu-chah-nulth written by Rachel Wojdak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The author’s driving proposition is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement to linearize linguistic outputs. This proposition is tested using original data from Nuu-chah-nulth ("Nootka"; Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language that is remarkable for its complex morphology.

Author : Brent Douglas Galloway
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945182
Total Pages : 1729 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem written by Brent Douglas Galloway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 1729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

Author : Marcus Callies
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027254311
Total Pages : 319 pages
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Download or read book Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English written by Marcus Callies and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.

Author : Diane Massam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198793553
Total Pages : 379 pages
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Download or read book Niuean written by Diane Massam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing ground for this claim: it displays verb-subject-object word order, in which the subject interrupts the predicate, and has an ergative case system, in which subjects are not clearly distinguished from objects in their marking for grammatical case. Diane Massam uses the framework of generative grammar to carry out a detailed analysis of the internal structure of Niuean predicates and arguments, as well as the relations between them, touching on many other topics including the nature of displacement, word formation, determiners, and thematic roles. The proposal is that Niuean complex predicates are formed via successive inversion, prior to the merge of all arguments (high argument merge), and that the predicate undergoes fronting to initial position across the arguments, with the same structure found also in nominal clauses. The conclusion is that Niuean does not have a subject in the usual sense, and this is related to the fact that the language has isolating morphology, lacking all tense and agreement inflection and nominative case. Instead, the language exhibits low absolutive predication, applicative ergative agents, and predicate fronting in lieu of subject extraction. The book extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typology, and theoretical linguistics.

Author : William C. McCormack
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110800039
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Language written by William C. McCormack and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruno Nettl
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Total Pages : 224 pages
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Author : M. Ryan Bochnak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190212349
Total Pages : 367 pages
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Download or read book Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork written by M. Ryan Bochnak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation. In twelve chapters discussing 11 language families from four continents, authors draw on their own fieldwork experience, pairing explicit methodological proposals with concrete examples of their use in the field. Several chapters cover issues specific to semantic topics such as modality, comparison, tense and aspect, and definiteness, while others focus on elicitation techniques more generally, addressing methodological issues such as the creation of elicitation plans, the choice of language in which to conduct elicitation, and the status of translation tasks. Together, the chapters of this volume demonstrate that elicitation on semantic topics, when conducted following sound methodologies, can and does produce reliable results. Given the high number of languages currently classified as endangered, conducting one-on-one fieldwork with native speaker consultants is critical for gathering new empirical findings that bear on linguistic theory.

Author : Eung-Do Cook
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110111668
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athapaskan Linguistics written by Eung-Do Cook and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1989 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Athapaskan Linguistics".

Author : Sharon Hargus
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841249
Total Pages : 857 pages
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Download or read book Witsuwit'en Grammar written by Sharon Hargus and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witsuwit'en is an endangered First Nations language spoken in western-central British Columbia. A member of the Athapaskan family of languages, the language had been known to have some intriguing characteristics of consonant-vowel interaction, the details of which have been in dispute among scholars. Witsuwit'en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit'en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress. Information about the sound system and word structure of Witsuwit'en is also provided, revealing many unusual features not previously described in this level of detail for an Athapaskan language. Witsuwit'en has elaborate morphology, even by the standards of the Athapaskan language family. Witsuwit'en Grammar will be of interest to anthropologists interested in the history of the Athapasakan language family, linguists interested in comparative Athapaskan grammar, or any linguist interested in phonetics-phonology or phonology-morphology interaction.