Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec

Feist, Timothy; Palancar, Enrique L.

doi:10.1353/lan.2021.0000

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“…The issues, including the different combinations of principles involved in lexicalism, are carefully laid out by O'Neill (2016). In particular, we have seen quite specific morphology-internal mechanisms at work, which are different in kind from the workings of syntax (for another particularly cogent example see Feist & Palancar, 2021). However, we have gone to some lengths to show a linkage between internal and external splits.…”

Section: Lexicalism and Morphology-free Syntaxmentioning

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Splits, internal and external, as a window into the nature of features

Corbett

2021

Morphology

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Lexemes may be split internally, by phenomena such as suppletion, periphrasis, heteroclisis and deponency. Generalizing over these phenomena, which split a lexeme’s paradigm, we can establish a typology of the possible internal splits. There are also lexemes whose external requirements are split: they induce different agreement, for instance. Again, a typology of these splits has been proposed. The next logical step is to attempt a typology of the possible relations between internal and external splits. This is not straightforward, since we need to avoid spurious linkages. Four lines of argument are offered: (i) general plausibility: the internal-external linkage is compelling, and so other accounts require a degree of coincidence which is unlikely; (ii) overabundance: alternative inflectional forms link to different external requirements; (iii) variation in time and space: splits in inflection and in external requirements vary, while maintaining their linkage; (iv) pluralia tantum nouns: the different types of these nouns provide intriguing confirming evidence. Case studies include Asia Minor Greek, Polish, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Sɛlɛɛ, Serbo-Croat (BCMS), Slovenian, Latin and Old Frisian. The clear instances which emerge, where an external split is demonstrably linked to an internal one, prove both surprising and significant. We discover that in split paradigms, besides overt overabundance, there may also be covertly overabundant cells. Furthermore, when external splits involve individual cells, these will not induce simple (consistent) agreement. This makes good sense, demonstrating that featural information is associated with lexemes in a natural default manner: at the lexeme level by default, unless overridden at the sub-paradigm level, unless in turn overridden at the level of individual cells.

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Section: Lexicalism and Morphology-free Syntaxmentioning

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Splits, internal and external, as a window into the nature of features

Corbett

2021

Morphology

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“…A prominent concern of current morphological theorists is to develop holistic descriptions of entire inflectional systems, quantifying the overall complexity of the systems, exploring their organisational properties and identifying predictive generalisations about the behaviour of inflected forms (see e.g. Stump & Finkel 2013, Bonami 2014, Maiden 2018, Beniamine 2021, Feist & Palancar 2021, Palancar 2021. By contrast, to the extent that Swahili inflection figures in morphological discussion, it is in the context of illustrating morpheme-based approaches.…”

Section: Swahili In Morpheme-based Analysesmentioning

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Swahili verbs and the value of abstractive accounts for agglutinating inflection

Esher

2022

Word Structure

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Within “word-based”, “paradigm-based” or “abstractive” models of inflectional systems ( Blevins 2006 , 2016 ), only full inflected wordforms are considered primitives; subword strings are treated not as distinct entities, but as abstract generalisations inferred by speakers across multiple inflected forms. These models stand in contrast to “constructive” approaches, which proceed from individual, distinct subword units to full words. An argument consistently adduced in favour of abstractive approaches is that they afford a descriptive advantage regarding “fusional” systems characterised by pervasive non-canonical exponence, such as cumulative exponence, extended exponence, and morphomic structure ( Stump 2016 : 17–30). Via an exploration of inflectional phenomena including non-canonical exponence and arbitrary distributional regularities in the verb inflection of standard Swahili, a language usually described as exemplifying “agglutinating” inflection and amenable to constructive, morpheme-based, analyses, this paper will argue that abstractive systems are equally applicable to “agglutinating” inflection, offering greater empirical plausibility and in some cases descriptive advantage.

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“…The behaviour of the inflectional morphology of the verb has been relatively well described (e.g. Lizárraga Navarro 2018;Palancar & Avelino 2019;Feist & Palancar 2021). Nominal inflection, by contrast, has been comparatively neglected.…”

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Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns

Herce

2022

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Person and number of a possessor are expressed in Chichimec in one of two ways. Most nouns use possessive classifiers. A smaller class (typically inalienables) inflects for the possessor synthetically. This paper constitutes the first in-depth exploration of this latter class. These nouns are characterized by unparalleled levels of irregularity, with more than 100 different inflection classes and most nouns exhibiting completely unique exponence patterns. The morphology of these nouns is based on several orthogonal inflectional layers: prefixes, stem alternations, and tone, all of which exhibit only weak predictive relations to other subsystems or cells, and equally unpredictable mappings to the possessor values they instantiate. The system is also extremely challenging with respect to segmentation, as most of the segments within the word can change in inflection seemingly independently of the neighbouring ones. This paper surveys this baroque system in search of its organizational principles.

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Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Splits, internal and external, as a window into the nature of features

Splits, internal and external, as a window into the nature of features

Swahili verbs and the value of abstractive accounts for agglutinating inflection

Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns

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