Morphosyntactic Correspondence in Bantu Reduplication

Hyman, Larry M.; Inkelas, Sharon; Sibanda, Galen

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“…Whenever truncated, RED is clearly preposed to the full stem. Hyman et al (2009) andDowning (2004) report a speaker of Bukusu, who omitted productive extensions in preposed RED, as in (58a), but variably truncated the root-initial syllable of postposed RED, as in (58b).…”

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“…The additional examples in (17) show that Ndebele's bisyllabic RED does not respect morpheme integrity (Hyman et al 2009):…”

Section: Hypothesis I: Full > Partial Verb-stem Reduplicationmentioning

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“…Of concern here are the complications concerning the realization of the perfective (Hyman et al 2009). As seen in (34a), when the base is a -CVC-root, the perfective is formed by simple suffixation of -il-e:…”

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“…The same options are seen in (35c), where the front feature can be realized on the root syllable of RED. The interpretation which Hyman et al (2009) give to doublets such as in (35b,c) is that Ndebele speakers vary in whether they treat the fused [e] as inflectional or non-inflectional: While the front feature derives from underlying /-il-/, the vowel slot on which it is realized belongs either to a derivational suffix or to the root. The third starred form in (35c) shows that it is not possible for the FV -e to appear in RED since it is unambiguously inflectional.…”

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The natural history of verb-stem reduplication in Bantu

Hyman

2009

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In this study I present a comparative and historical analysis of ''frequentative'' Bantu verb-stem reduplication, many of whose variants have been described for a number of Eastern and Southern Bantu languages. While some languages have full-stem compounding, where the stem consists of the verb root plus any and all suffixes, others restrict the reduplicant to two syllables. Two questions are addressed: (i) What was the original nature of reduplication in ProtoBantu? (ii) What diachronic processes have led to the observed variation? I first consider evidence that the frequentative began as full-stem reduplication, which then became restricted either morphologically (by excluding inflectional and ultimately derivational suffixes) and/or phonologically (by imposing a bisyllabic maximum size constraint). I then turn to the opposite hypothesis and consider evidence and motivations for a conflicting tendency to rebuild full-stem reduplication from the partial reduplicant. I end by attempting to explain why the partial reduplicant is almost always preposed to the fuller base.

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“…The additional examples in (17) show that Ndebele's bisyllabic RED does not respect morpheme integrity (Hyman et al 2009):…”

Section: Hypothesis I: Full > Partial Verb-stem Reduplicationmentioning

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Section: Incorporation Of Inflectional Suffixesmentioning

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The natural history of verb-stem reduplication in Bantu

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2009

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“…The alternative proposal, found in e.g. Downing (2000), Hyman, Inkelas and Sibanda (1999), Zoll (1999, 2000), and Myers and Carleton (1996), is that RED is a verb stem and forms a compound stem with the base stem, as shown in (3b).…”

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Resolving Verbal Reduplication Paradoxes in Malawian Tonga

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2017

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The paper describes three verbal reduplication paradoxes in Malawian Tonga, a southern Bantu language spoken in the northern part of Malawi. The reduplicant (RED) is either total or partial and is either prefixed or suffixed to the base. The problem of whether the relevant level of prosodic (reduplicative) stem analysis is the syllable or the mora and thus whether the minimal size of RED should be two syllables or two moras is considered. The paper argues that this language offers three possibilities for reduplication, namely partial prefixal reduplication, total suffixal reduplication, and partial suffixal reduplication. Thus, reduplication in the language is optionally prefixal or suffixal, although the latter appears to be the default. The paper also argues that the relevant unit of prosodic stem analysis is typically the syllable and that reduplicative prosodic stems, like the base stem, are therefore required to be minimally bisyllabic, as in many other Bantu languages.

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Modeling Signifiers in Constructional Approaches to Morphological Analysis

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Morphosyntactic Correspondence in Bantu Reduplication

Cited by 29 publications

References 23 publications

The natural history of verb-stem reduplication in Bantu

The natural history of verb-stem reduplication in Bantu

Resolving Verbal Reduplication Paradoxes in Malawian Tonga

Modeling Signifiers in Constructional Approaches to Morphological Analysis

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