Prosody as syntactic evidence

Royer, Justin

doi:10.1007/s11049-021-09506-1

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“…Resyllabification upon affixation or cliticization has been implicated in various morphophonological alternations. The current account might be reminiscent of the choice between allomorphs in K'ichee' according to the prosodic status of the stem (Henderson 2012), a proposal recently challenged by Royer (2021). In Mbat, V-initial suffixes trigger glide reduction in some stems upon resyllabification (Green 2021).…”

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Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics

Kastner

2024

J. Ling.

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The Galician definite article and direct object clitics exhibit allomorphy-like alternations which raise a number of questions for the morphology-phonology interface. This squib highlights inadequacies of allomorphic approaches to these alternations, outlining a novel way forward in which segmental changes apply to a stem in a fashion reminiscent of Celtic mutation. Differences between the article and the object clitic can then be ascribed to their prosodic weights, evident elsewhere in the language. Taken together, these findings expand our view of potential triggers for morphophonological alternations.

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Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics

Kastner

2024

J. Ling.

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“…Intonational Phrases, or IPs; for detailed discussion of K’iche’, see Nielsen, 2005; Henderson, 2012; Burdin et al., 2015; Baird, 2018, and citations there; for more distantly related Mayan languages, see e.g. Clemens, 2021; Royer, 2022).…”

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The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)

Bennett

Harvey

Henderson

et al. 2022

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting. These include glottalised consonants (ejectives, implosives, and glottal stop), uvular consonants, vowel length contrasts, syllable structure, stress, and lexical tone. Tone is unusual among Mayan languages, especially in Guatemala, and the phonetic description here complements the small handful of existing descriptions of tone in Uspanteko and within the Mayan family.

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Optional agreement as successful/failed Agree

Lyskawa

Ranero

2021

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We investigate optional predicate agreement in Santiago Tz’utujil (Mayan). Several generalizations emerge: (i) inanimate arguments base-generated as complements control agreement optionally; (ii) some animate arguments base-generated as complements control agreement optionally; (iii) all arguments base-generated as specifiers control full agreement obligatorily. We propose that two conditions must be met for the operation Agree to succeed, resulting in the exponence of all the features of the agreement controller. First, a goal must be visible (bear the right feature). Second, a goal must be accessible (be in the right structural position). If one or both conditions are not met, Agree fails, but the derivation converges and 3sg agreement is exponed. While Agree is deterministic, surface optionality arises when the operation fails. We use optional agreement to diagnose the syntactic structure of understudied constructions in Mayan (nominalizations, Agent Focus). We discuss microvariation, highlighting methodological considerations that arise when assuming an I-language approach.

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Prosody as syntactic evidence

Cited by 5 publications

References 59 publications

Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics

Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics

The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)

Optional agreement as successful/failed Agree

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