The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok

Gouskova, Maria; Bobaljik, Jonathan David

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“…So they hang around the oven and you know how it is (https://www.thehairpin.com/2012/06/ask-a-clean-person-whats-cookin-oh-ew/) pare ( 27) with ( 22) above) adds another layer of complexity to this puzzle. I propose a solution that involves optionality in the way that the diminutive is introduced into the noun's structure It has been argued that diminutive affixes sometimes represent modifiers of the noun, analogous to adjunct phrases in syntax (see Gouskova & Bobaljik (2022) and references therein). 7 Additionally, research in syntax and semantics has proposed that adjunct/modifier phrases can be added into a structure late (Lebeaux 1991;Sauerland 1998, a.o.).…”

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“…Diminutive interaction with irregular plural nouns a. one mouse b. two mice / *two mouses c. one mousie d. two micies / two mousies My analysis of this pattern relies on a proposal about the derivational timing of the diminutive's addition. Previous works have argued that diminutives may be modifier elements, analogous to adjunct phrases in syntax (see Gouskova & Bobaljik (2022) and references therein). Furthermore, research in syntax and semantics has argued that adjuncts/modifiers can be introduced into the derivation late, after some delay (Lebeaux 1991;Sauerland 1998, a.o.).…”

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The morpho-phonology of an English diminutive

Davis

2023

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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I describe and analyze the morpho-phonology of the English diminutive suffix /-i/, as in doggy, birdie, horsie, and so on. My first goal is to argue that unlike most other diminutives in English this suffix is productive, though subject to a phonological constraint. Specifically, I show that this suffix must be adjacent to a stressed syllable—a requirement that motivates exceptional truncations. I propose that thesefacts provide a clear instance of a morpheme-specific phonological constraint. My second goal is to examine how this diminutive interacts with nouns that normally have irregular plural forms. I show that this diminutive can block irregular plural morphology, but optionally allows the persistence of plural ablaut. I explain these facts using an analysis in which morphological rules require adjacency between the triggering node and the affected one, along with a proposal that the English diminutive /-i/ is an adjunct/modifier which can be attached late in the derivation.

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The morpho-phonology of an English diminutive

Davis

2023

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…A priori, an indefinite-forming affix may be either a separate head on the spine (22a) or an adjunct to the DP or an NP (22b), see a recent discussion of heads vs. modifiers in morphology in Gouskova & Bobaljik (2022) and references there. In these trees, I address indefinite suffixes; to treat the indefinite prefix jes-, obvious changes need to be made to the two trees.…”

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“…Assuming that the behavior of these affixes is uniform, it is natural to conjecture that they are always heads. However, as Gouskova & Bobaljik (2022) show, what looks like one and the same suffix may be a head in some environments and a modifier in others. I leave a systematic investigation of the head vs. modifier status of the indefinite-forming affixes for further research.…”

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Iterated D-layers in a nominal and Multiple Case Exponence: The structure and significance of a morphological <em>rarissimum</em>

Erschler

2022

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The paper addresses a typologically unusual instance of Multiple Exponence: some wh-based items in Digor Ossetic, an agglutinative Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus, exhibit double case marking in the plural. For example, the allative plural of the indefinite ka-dɐr who-INDEFINITE ‘someone’ is kɐ-mɐ-dɐr-tɐ-mɐ who-ALLATIVE-INDEFINITE-PLURAL-ALLATIVE. I propose an analysis of this phenomenon in the framework of Distributed Morphology. The key ingredients of the analysis are the presence of two D heads on the spine of such a nominal; and the possibility of last-resort sharing of a case value between these heads. Furthermore, under appropriate conditions, the case exponents associated with the two D heads undergo haplological dissimilation. The rarity of this kind of double case exponence is due to the fact that a number of independent conditions need to be met simultaneously in order for it to obtain.

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“…In a similar spirit,Gouskova & Bobaljik (2022) take linear adjacency to condition the visibility of class diacritics on nouns.journal of slavic linguistics…”

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Allomorphy, morphological operations and the order of Slavic verb-prefixes

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Simonović,

Yudina

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Slavic verbal prefixes are traditionally divided into lexical and superlexical types. Lexical prefixes are base-generated below the verb, while superlexical prefixes are generated within the verb's functional projection. However, this analysis incorrectly predicts their linearization. We propose that all verbal prefixes correspond to argument-structural effects, generated as heads of a voice projection. Our PF analysis follows Embick & Noyer (2001), with heads linearizing bottom-up, accompanied by local dislocation. Default dislocation is string-vacuous; inversion occurs only when the head participates in allomorphic realization. Strict implementation of this algorithm precisely yields the observed surface order.

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The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

The morpho-phonology of an English diminutive

The morpho-phonology of an English diminutive

Iterated D-layers in a nominal and Multiple Case Exponence: The structure and significance of a morphological <em>rarissimum</em>

Allomorphy, morphological operations and the order of Slavic verb-prefixes

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